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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
Debrief of air permit hearings for the proposed Buckingham compressor station
The State Air Pollution Control Board heard public comments all day Thursday November 8 at the Convention Center, Richmond on the proposed Buckingham compressor station. Friday morning the DEQ presented, and then Dominion presented, with air board members asking...
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...
Other Environmental Issues
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...
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...
Environmental Justice
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