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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!
An archive of what went into this remarkable environmental accomplishment follows.
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Pipelines & Compressor Stations
Citizens Step Up Where DEQ Has Failed: Summary of Public Comments to Water Board Now Available
Today, Wild Virginia and the Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition (DPMC) have released a report that summarizes and provides important details from thousands of comments the public submitted during May and June. The State Water Control Board ordered the comment...
Outrageous: Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Intends to Muzzle the Public at August 21 State Water Control Board Meeting on Atlantic Coast, Mountain Valley Pipelines
On August 15, Wild Virginia and the Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition (DPMC) released a scathing report summarizing 17,000 comments filed with the State Water Control Board in advance of its August 21 scheduled meeting. As Blue Virginia detailed here, the report...
With pipeline projects halted, there’s a golden chance for the state to require more review. Northam doesn’t seem likely to take it.
Since before he took office in January, opponents of the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines, including a list of lawmakers and officials from his own party, have begged and cajoled Gov. Ralph Northam to get tougher on the contentious natural gas projects....
Air Permit Comment Writing Parties August 29, September 4
Come join us for help in writing your personalized comments about the air permit for the proposed Buckingham compressor station. The comment period ends Tuesday, September 11 with the public hearing which will be at the Buckingham Middle School. Yogaville will host...
New FERC filing claims Atlantic Coast Pipeline unnecessary, duplicative
WASHINGTON — Environmental groups pointed to a recent filing to the South Carolina Public Service Commission as evidence in their request for rehearing on a key Federal Energy Regulatory Commission-issued certificate for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In the July 16...
Deny 401 Certification for the ACP
Blog by Bobby Whitescarver Aug 5, 2018 The Virginia State Water Control Board must deny 401 certification for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline(ACP). It should have denied 401 certification for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). Building these fracked gas pipelines through...
Stop Work Order Issued for the ACP Friday night, August 10, 2018
Why does significant news – bad or good – regarding the Mountain Valley Pipeline and/or Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) always seem to come on Friday evenings? In this case, it’s good news regarding the ACP, albeit not the ultimate good news of this idiotic/misbegotten...
In Buckingham’s Union Hill, a center of resistance for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Dominion brings in a ringer
Pastor Paul Wilson, of Union Hill and Union Grove Baptist churches in Buckingham County, has been among the most outspoken opponents of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which is proposing to build a compressor station in the county. Photo by Robert Zullo, Virginia...
Federal agency orders work to stop on the entire Mountain Valley Pipeline
ROANOKE — A federal agency has ordered a stop to construction of the entire Mountain Valley Pipeline, which has run into repeated problems with erosion since it began its path through the Roanoke and New River valleys. In a letter to pipeline officials Friday, the...
Proposed Buckingham compressor station air permit; DEQ provides more information
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality [DEQ] has a web page now up with further information about the air permitting process. That information is copied below or you can go here:...
Other Environmental Issues
President Obama only has less than 100 days to secure his climate legacy before he leaves office. Will his environmental legacy paint him as a Climate Champ or a Climate Chump? Tell him to stop new fossil fuel leasing today!
The Obama Administration has taken significant steps to combat climate change; but they’ve been negated by unregulated, unprecedented growth in oil and gas production under his presidency. That's why were teaming up with local, regional and national allies to deliver...
Duke Energy’s flood problems at Lee coal plant deepen: Coal ash released, safety inspections questioned
Oct 15, 2016, 9:09am EDT Updated Oct 15, 2016, 1:28pm EDT INDUSTRIES & TAGS Energy, Government & Regulations, Coal, Environment A 50-foot breach in the cooling-pond dam at Duke Energy’s H.F. Lee plant was visible at least a day before it was discovered, an...
BBC News – Fossil fuels should be phased out by 2100 says IPCC
By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says in a stark report that most of the world's electricity can - and must - be produced from low-carbon sources by 2050. If not, the world faces "severe, pervasive and...
Critics: Dominion Plans Rely Too Much on Fossil Fuels
RICHMOND, Va. – Dominion Virginia Power wants to rely too heavily on fuels that change the climate, according to critics of the state's largest utility. Dominion has filed its Integrated Resource Plan with the State Corporation Commission. Depending on which version...
NY and 5 other states sue EPA over upwind pollution
Posted: Oct 06, 2016 4:13 PM EDT Updated: Oct 06, 2016 4:13 PM EDT ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York and five other Northeastern states are suing federal regulators to force them to help ensure that upwind states control their pollution. The suit against the Environmental...
SEC Probes EXXON Over Accounting for Climate Change
Oil Sector, Investors React to SEC Probe of Exxon Over Climate Change; Many see investigation as potentially transformative moment for U.S. companies Olson, Bradley; Rapoport, Michael. Wall Street Journal (Online) [New York, N.Y] 21 Sep 2016: n/a Abstract According to...
Exxon hit with first civil suit over climate science
An environmental group has sued oil giant ExxonMobil Corp., alleging the company is improperly polluting a Massachusetts river and putting it at further risk by not preparing for climate change. The lawsuit, from the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), says an Exxon...
10,000 March in Philly Calling for a Clean Energy Revolution
At high Noon Sunday, with temperatures heading toward 95 degrees, I'm confident I was not the only one preparing to march through the streets of downtown Philadelphia who recalled that old elementary-school story about the wig-wearing drafters of the Declaration of...
Sludge in our Waters: An Investigation of Industrial Contaminants in Sewage Sludge and the Impacts on Surface Waters in North Carolina
A 27 page report from Riverkeepers of North Carolina on the downstream contamination by the concentrated toxic chemicals in biosolids. Read the report. Haw River Assembly: Defending the river since 1982 Catawba Riverkeeper Mission Statement: We educate and...
Biosolids: Synagro’s Record Compiled by Tyla Matteson and others
Synagro is the private company that distributes the sludge for the wastewater treatment plants which are owned by the state. In Virginia There was a lawsuit involving Synagro’s spreading 1 million gallons of hog waste material from Smithfield’s lagoons. The lawsuit...
Environmental Justice
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