ACP Archives
The Friends of Buckingham have worked for more than seven years to protect our lands from the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Our efforts were successful!
An archive of what went into this remarkable environmental accomplishment follows.
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Pipelines & Compressor Stations
Dominion offers $5.1M to aid community Plan for Buckingham next to pipeline compressor station
Dominion Energy is offering $5.1 million for a package of improvements — including expanded emergency services and a new community center — for a predominantly African-American community next to the site of a natural gas compressor station Dominion is proposing in...
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Boyle and Shabazz column: Does Governor Northam care about environmental justice?
Pastor Paul Wilson’s Union Hill Baptist Church in Buckingham County is very near Dominion’s proposed compressor station site. 2015, TIMES-DISPATCH A year ago this week, then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe took an important step in creating the state’s first Advisory Council on...
Virginia has a pipeline problem
Ken Cuccinelli, a Republican, served as Virginia’s attorney general from 2010 to 2014. In Shipman, Va., a family that has held its homestead for generations, tending graves of ancestors and buildings erected by great-great grandfathers, struggles to understand why it...
Summary of Buckingham Compressor Station Air Permit Public Comments made to DEQ
We now have a summary of all the public comments to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality for the proposed Buckingham Compressor Station air permit, made during the public comment period in August and September, thanks to the incredibly hard work of folks...
Does Governor Northam care about environmental justice?
A year ago this week, then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe took an important step in creating the state’s first Advisory Council on Environmental Justice. Heeding the principle that “protection of our natural resources applies equally to all individuals,” the council’s charge is...
Pipeline Compressor Site Threatens Vulnerable Virginians
The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board (APCB) is about to consider a permit for a natural gas compressor station for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The site being considered for this compressor station is inappropriate, yet the Virginia Department of Environmental...
Air pollution is the ‘new tobacco’, warns WHO head
Exclusive: Simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more, but ‘a smog of complacency pervades the planet’, says Dr Tedros Adhanom • Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: Air pollution is the new tobacco. Time to tackle this epidemic...
The final air permit and associated documents are up on the DEQ website/updates to schedule 11/6
"Based on the information available at the time of this review, the requirements established in this draft permit make BCS the most stringently controlled compressor station in Virginia and in the United States. The pollutant limits and monitoring requirements in the...
The con at the heart of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
It can’t be said enough, and it’s something that’s easy to lose sight of amid the labyrinthine legal and permitting debates around the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which could be getting federal approval to start full construction in Virginia any minute now. The need for...
Southern Environmental Law Center sends statement to SAPCB re board’s authority on review of BCS
SELC delivers a clear statement to the SAPCB, laying out the provisions of law that allow them to deny this permit due to the deficiencies of the application to address site suitability, environmental justice, and lack of need. Read the 4 page brief here: SELC Air...
Other Environmental Issues
80,000 Reindeer Have Starved To Death In Siberia Because Of Melting Sea Ice
The Huffington Post When it comes to climate change iconography, there’s perhaps no image more recognizable than that of a lone polar bear marooned on a melting sheet of ice. But as the impacts of a continually warming Earth are felt by more species, new emblematic...
Standing Rock protest: hundreds clash with police over Dakota Access Pipeline
Protesters also reported being hit with rubber bullets and percussion grenades on a bridge just north of the encampments established by indigenous and environmental activists in opposition to the controversial pipeline. Everything you need to know about the...
Comment period opens for proposed biosolids application permit
A long-awaited public comment period has opened for those wishing to respond to a permit proposal that would allow the application of biosolids to nearly 2,000 acres in Nelson County. [A large targeted acreage is on the James River in the Manteo area, across from...
Major companies call for more renewable energy options in Virginia – Richmond Times-Dispatch: Richmond Business News From The RTD
By ROBERT ZULLO Richmond Times-Dispatch A group of 18 major corporations, including big names such as Microsoft, Walmart, Best Buy, Ikea, Staples and Mars Inc., among others, have sent a letter to state lawmakers and the Virginia State Corporation Commission calling...
EPA Report: More Action Is Needed to Protect Water Resources From Unmonitored Hazardous Chemicals
A Report from the EPA, Office of Inspector General September 29, 2014 Management controls put in place by the EPA to regulate and control hazardous chemical discharges from sewage treatment plants to water resources have limited effectiveness. The EPA regulates...
Sutton Plant implosion showcases Duke Energy transition to cleaner energy in the Carolinas
Your Renewable News Thursday, Nov 10, 2016 The Sutton Steam Plant in Wilmington ended its service with a bang, another significant milestone in Duke Energy's campaign to replace older, less-efficient plants with cleaner energy for its customers. An early-morning...
More Americans now work in Solar Power than the extraction of Oil &Gas, or Coal John Fitzgerald Weaver – 6 months ago @SolarInMASS
Solar Power now has more employees than either the Oil & Gas or Coal Extraction industries in the United States. The solar industry employed approximately 208,000 individuals at the end of 2015 versus 185,000+ in Solar Power now has more employees than either the...
Pretty Much Every Living Thing Is Already Feeling The Effects Of Climate Change
Pretty Much Every Living Thing Is Already Feeling The Effects Of Climate Change | The Huffington Post Climate change has already touched almost all life on the planet, even under moderate rates of global warming, according to a report published Thursday in the journal...
Women allegedly threatened with arrest
Pastor Paul Wilson Chad Oba The pastor of two Baptist churches near a proposed natural gas fired 53,515 horsepower compressor station — part of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project — is decrying the alleged threat of arrest of seven women...
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS BY-LAWS AND RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURES
http://www.buckinghamcountyva.org/Board%20Minutes/2015/January%2012,%202015.pdf BUCKINGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS BY-LAWS AND RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURES CREATION BUCKINGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS JANUARY 12, 2015 The Buckingham County Board of...
Environmental Justice
Pipeline ‘endangers’ Union Hill | Farmville
The Union Hill community in Buckingham has been named one of Virginia’s most endangered historic places by Preservation Virginia due to the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s (ACP) proximity to the area. Dominion and three other partners are seeking federal approval...
Historic preservation group takes aim at threat from pipeline, power line projects – Richmond Times-Dispatch: Virginia News
Preservation Virginia released a list of Virginia’s Most Endangered Scenic Places that includes the three sites as one entry under a new category of “cultural resources threatened by utility infrastructure projects.” Source: Historic preservation group takes aim at...
Why I Risked Arrest for Democracy | Sierra Club
On Monday, I allowed myself to be arrested for a cause vitally important to the Sierra Club: a democracy where every voice is heard. In this organization’s history, we’ve learned that in order to protect our environment—our clean air, clean water, and wild places—we...
Dominion Hears Opposition to Proposed Buckingham Co. Station – NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather
Dozens of people in Buckingham County are going head-to-head with Dominion Virginia Power over its plan to put a natural gas compression station there. http://www.nbc29.com/story/30156410/dominion-hears-opposition-to-proposed-buckingham-co-station Source:...
Solar inspiration from the Indigenous community
https://youtu.be/iXUTA675NB8
Energy Democracy: Building a Solar Dream in a Tar Sands Nightmare
We've been looking down far too long and digging the bottom of the barrel in dirty fossil fuels. We must now turn our gaze towards the sun and realize the true energy potential that is available to us here and now. We must choose to build healthy vibrant communities...
The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here
The worst predicted impacts of climate change are starting to happen — and much faster than climate scientists expected Source: The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here
Tue. July 21 – Buckingham Compressor Station Seminar
Tuesday July 21, 10 am Buckingham Compressor Station Seminar Friends of Buckingham has been invited by the United Baptist Association of Central Virginia to give this seminar. Yogaville Environmental Solutions [YES], and Chesapeake Climate Action Network [CCAN], are...