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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
“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...
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...
Other Environmental Issues
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...
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...
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