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The Friends of Buckingham have worked for more than seven years to protect our lands from the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Our efforts were successful!
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Pipelines & Compressor Stations
Dereliction of Duty: Votes on MVP and ACP Not Properly Informed by Law
The Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition (DPMC) has learned that Robert Dunn, Chairman of the Virginia State Water Control Board, did not understand the ramifications of the Board’s actions on water quality certifications for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and...
Economics of the pipelines – 3 papers by Tom Hadwin
Excellent papers on the economics of these pipelines. To Understand Pipeline Economics Follow the Money Excerpts from Comments to the SCC_Aug17-2018 Hadwin-Comments_Air-Quality-Permit-Buckingham-Compressor-Station You can also go to this site for more articles, which...
Hands Across the Appalachian Trail – Sept. 22 10:00 a.m. to noon
Humpback Rocks Visitor Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway JOIN HANDS to protect our land, communities and the Appalachian Trail from the unnecessary and unwanted onslaught of natural gas pipelines. This event features the Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s vision to...
Critical Unanswered Questions about ACP’s Union Hill Compressor Station – to supplement your comments for DEQ air permit
Thank you all for taking the time to comment about the air permit for the proposed Buckingham compressor station [BCS]. Below is information on who, where to send comments, and background information, questions, concerns and guidelines that we suggest for best impact....
Pipeline Politics: The Appalling Silence of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam
It has been said that where you stand often depends on where you sit. Such is the case with the term “old plantation.” People who want to distort the cruel history of slavery in America use the term “old plantation” to conjure false and comforting (to some) memories...
Press Release: Media conference call with community leaders and opponents of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
MEDIA ADVISORY Atlantic Coast Pipeline Media Conference Call Global Justice Ecology Project With Friends of Buckingham and Virginia Environmental Justice Collaborative WHAT- Media conference call with community leaders and opponents of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline,...
“Finally, its Final!”: Governor Northam’s Advisory Council Calls for Moratorium on Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines
The following press release is from the Global Justice Ecology Project, following today’s vote by Gov. Northam’s Advisory Council on Environmental Justice (ACEJ) to make its letter, calling for a moratorium on further construction of the fracked-gas Atlantic Coast...
In Virginia, governor and appointees at odds over gas pipelines
The Transco Pipeline cuts through the forests of Buckingham County and crosses Route 56 in the foreground. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline would pass through Buckingham County and connect to this pipeline. A compressor station would be built at this intersection. (Timothy...
The Baptists and the yogis join to fight a pipeline
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. — Pastor Paul was nursing a sore throat, but as he preached on a sleepy Sunday morning in his little country church, he felt a rising sense of urgency. “Turning points!” the Rev. Paul Wilson shouted. Like the biblical Paul on the road to...
Buckingham citizens meet with DEQ to address issues with draft air permit
Press Release: Leaders’ questions highlight community concerns about proposed compressor station’s impact on air quality and health Buckingham, Virginia – On August 16, 2018, members of the historic Union Hill and Buckingham communities filled the Buckingham...
Other Environmental Issues
BY-LAWS BUCKINGHAM COUNTY PlANNING COMMISSION
http://www.buckinghamcountyva.org/Planning%20Commission%20Packets/2016/PC%20P By-Laws Article 1-Objectives 1-1. The Buckingham County Planning Commission was established in conformance with aresolution adopted by the Buckingham County Board of Supervisors on February...
FAST FIX: Hailing a David over Goliath campaign, solar advocates celebrate defeat of Florida’s Amendment 1 – See more at: http://www.theenergyfix.com/2016/11/09/fast-fix-hailing-a-david-over-goliath-campaign-solar-advocates-celebrate-defeat-of-floridas-amendment-1/#sthash.IIPlHc6z.dpuf
Written by Jim Pierobon After it securing only 51% of votes — short of the needed 60% — here are the most on-point reactions by solar advocates who hailed Amendment 1’s defeat as a “true David and Goliath battle.” Tory Perfetti, chairman of Floridians for Solar Choice...
Arcadia Power launches first nationwide community solar program
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President Obama Says Engineers Considering Rerouting Dakota Access Pipeline
President Obama today said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering rerouting the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is being built near the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's reservation in North Dakota. “We’re monitoring this closely,” Obama said in an interview with Now...
Standing Rock: One million people ‘check in’ on Facebook to support Dakota pipeline protesters
| US news | The Guardian More than 1 million people have checked in on Facebook to the Standing Rock Indian reservation in response to a viral post claiming that doing so would help protect activists in North Dakota protesting against an oil pipeline from police...
Dominion withdraws requests for state permits to close Chesapeake coal ash facility
By ROBERT ZULLO Richmond Times-Dispatch Dominion Virginia Power has asked the state Department of Environmental Quality to put the brakes, at least temporarily, on the permitting process that will govern the closing of its Chesapeake coal-ash landfill and ponds, which...
Rev. Fletcher of GreenFaith will be leading a session on 2017 DC Climate March mobilization
Dear Friends, Rev. Fletcher of GreenFaith will be leading a session on 2017 DC Climate March mobilization at a venue near Yogaville community this coming Saturday, October 29, from 9:30am to 11:30am. Please note the optional activities starting with noon meditation at...
200-acre Buckingham solar farm project wins approval
State regulators have approved a proposed 200-acre solar energy facility in Buckingham County that will provide “utility-scale” solar generation. Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced permit approval for the 19.8-megawatt Firestone Solar facility in Buckingham, which will be...
New study to characterize methane emissions from natural gas compressor stations
Natural gas, a clean-burning fuel, has significant potential as a “bridge fuel” on a path to a sustainable energy future. However, its climate benefits are highly dependent upon the emission rate of methane from the nation’s vast natural gas infrastructure. Colorado...
McAuliffe’s bright new energy plan still has that rotten-egg smell
Earlier this week, Virginia Secretary of Commerce and Trade Todd Haymore published an op-ed in the Roanoke Times boasting of the Commonwealth’s achievements on energy. It was a sad reminder that Virginia has trouble moving beyond “all of the above,” a phrase that...
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