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
A historically Black town stood in the way of a pipeline – so developers claimed it was mostly white
When residents in Union Hill, Virginia, decried the pipeline as a form of environmental racism, the energy company insisted it wasn’t As fracked gas fields in West Virginia boomed over the past decade, energy companies jumped at the chance to build massive new...
Updates in the fight against MVP and MVP Southgate – Front Porch Blog
Catch up on updates about the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline and its Southgate extension with upcoming events, regulatory developments and the latest news that affects the construction of these projects and the communities fighting back against them. MVP Southgate...
‘Keystone XL is dead!’ Ding Dong!
The Keystone XL pipeline project is officially terminated, the sponsor company announced Wednesday. Calgary-based TC Energy is pulling the plug on the project after Canadian officials failed to persuade President Joe Biden to reverse his cancellation of its permit on...
Glick Names Montina Cole to Top Environmental Justice Post at FERC
Our very own Montina!!! Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Richard Glick today announced the appointment of Montina Cole to serve as Senior Counsel for Environmental Justice and Equity, effective June 1, 2021. Cole, a seasoned executive and attorney...
Determining Disparate Impacts in Environmental Justice Communities: Does Friends of Buckingham v. State Air Pollution Control Board Provide the Roadmap?
It has long been recognized that minority and disadvantaged communities are subject to higher levels of pollution than more affluent non-minority areas. This fact is the basis of the need for Environmental Justice to ensure that the past disparate impacts to these...
Atlantic Coast Pipeline easement injustices continue/ Remembering Feb 19, 2019
The Farmville Herald editor thinks the $3.5 that Dominion is giving to Buckingham is the right thing to do, that it is benevolent. Huh. Why would you have to say that - is there doubt that it is benevolent? See the article of Wednesday February 17. We think it isn't -...
Please comment at Public Hearing Mon 1/11/21: Commercial Prospecting to be a by-right use
Public Hearing on Monday, January 11 at 6 pm. Please submit comments before noon, the day of meeting, or they will not be delivered. Talking points and resources follow these instructions. Please direct comments to the Public Hearing on January 11 on commercial...
Webinar Tues Jan 12, 6 pm: Learn about the threat of gold mining in Virginia
Please join us to learn about the threat of modern gold mining in Buckingham, the gold-pyrite belt in Virginia and beyond. Find out how this affects you, your drinking water and how you can take action to stop this assault on our inalienable rights to clean water,...
Mountain Valley Pipeline updates; Heroic Yellow Finch Tree Sits – more than 800 days
Mountain Valley Pipeline faces political, regulatory changes in 2021 The history of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, from the time it was first proposed to its projected completion, will soon span the terms of three U.S. presidents. So what impact will the incoming...
Extensive Colorado gold campaign; Gold mining 101; Planning meeting summary
This post has excellent coverage by 2 videos and Planning Commission report. A short video on the Colorado campaign to ban gold mining. And Mining 101 by Earthworks. Alexa Massey, for the Farmville Herald continues to do excellent reporting, making sense out of...
Other Environmental Issues
3 Op Ed’s about the Mountain Valley Pipeline: Karenna Gore, Senator Ghazala Hashmi & Karen Campblin and Dr Samantha Ahdoot
Four Stellar Women speak out against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). Give a listen. OpEd from Karenna Gore regarding denial of MVP's VA 401 permit, and the anniversary of the Clean Water Act: The common wealth of water In the final months of 2021, a decision is...
Making Clean Energy Clean, Just and Equitable
Clean Energy, Not Dirty Mining Earthworks supports the transition to a 100% renewable energy economy—one that no longer depends on fossil fuels—an essential shift, if we are to avert catastrophic climate change. Solar, wind power and battery technologies are...
A historically Black town stood in the way of a pipeline – so developers claimed it was mostly white
When residents in Union Hill, Virginia, decried the pipeline as a form of environmental racism, the energy company insisted it wasn’t As fracked gas fields in West Virginia boomed over the past decade, energy companies jumped at the chance to build massive new...
Glick Names Montina Cole to Top Environmental Justice Post at FERC
Our very own Montina!!! Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Richard Glick today announced the appointment of Montina Cole to serve as Senior Counsel for Environmental Justice and Equity, effective June 1, 2021. Cole, a seasoned executive and attorney...
Determining Disparate Impacts in Environmental Justice Communities: Does Friends of Buckingham v. State Air Pollution Control Board Provide the Roadmap?
It has long been recognized that minority and disadvantaged communities are subject to higher levels of pollution than more affluent non-minority areas. This fact is the basis of the need for Environmental Justice to ensure that the past disparate impacts to these...
Brown Grove: An historic Virginia community is running out of time.
The community of Brown Grove in Hanover County is knitted together by a single ancestor, a freedwoman named Caroline Morris, who helped found the community during the Reconstruction. Now, all these years later, Caroline’s descendants are still battling injustices....
Union Hill makes history—again
It’s been a busy several years in usually quiet Buckingham County. In Virginia’s rural and mostly Black community of Union Hill, the people who—not so long ago—staved off a massive natural gas pipeline’s polluting compressor station proposed on the same land their...
Extensive Colorado gold campaign; Gold mining 101; Planning meeting summary
This post has excellent coverage by 2 videos and Planning Commission report. A short video on the Colorado campaign to ban gold mining. And Mining 101 by Earthworks. Alexa Massey, for the Farmville Herald continues to do excellent reporting, making sense out of...
Get your comments ready for 11/10 Board of Supervisors meeting at 6 pm
Tuesday, November 10 at 6 pm. Our County officials will be discussing changing an ordinance that would allow a Canadian gold mining company to drill in an A-1 agriculturally zoned part of the county. Only the first 20 people will be admitted to the auditorium. You can...
Gold mining: videos of Haile mine, Aston Bay, 2 articles
Flying to Haile Gold Mine April 04 2020, near Kershaw SC, and a little trip back in time along the way with Brian Pittman. Brian and family, fly directly over the 4,000+ acre gold mine, reaching it at about 5 minutes, but it can be seen from the distance once the...
Environmental Justice
A National Call for Moral Revival with the Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington
Due to Covid-19 the Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington was a Digital Justice Gathering to call for a revolution of values to save the soul and heart of our democracy. The political and economic systems in the U.S. are plagued by the interlocking...
Allan receives community service for removing enslaved people block marker
TYLER HAMMEL/THE DAILY PROGRESS Two supporters talk with Richard H. Allan III (right) following his hearing Thursday at Charlottesville General District Court. An Albemarle County man charged with removing a plaque that marks the spot where enslaved people were...
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline If built, the ACP will disrupt the pristine landscape & impact historic communities.
An Expedition led by Senior Fellow, Karen Kasmauski with the International League Of Conservation Photographers. For a stunning photographic essay and story of Union Hill in Buckingham County and also Nelson County please click HERE.
Virginians Rallied in Protest of Trump’s Proposed NEPA Overhaul
By Blue Virginia - February 26, 2020 From the Virginia Sierra Club: Virginians Rallied in Protest of Trump’s Proposed NEPA Overhaul Climate advocates from across Virginia called on leaders to halt the rollback of NEPA Washington D.C. – The Trump administration...
The Poor People’s Campaign March on Washington on June 20, 2020
The Poor People's Campaign March on Washington is gathering momentum. In 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others called for a “revolution of values” in America. They sought to build a broad, fusion movement that could unite poor and impacted communities...
Opinion ‘Environmental Justice Is Not Merely a Box to Be Checked’
When concerns about a pipeline were dismissed by regulators, a rural black enclave went to court — and won. New York Times Opinion Jan. 23, 2020 By Jeff Gleason, the executive director of the Southern Environmental Law Center. How we treat the story and future of...
Bishop Goff visits Union Hill and Yogaville/Tribute to Rev Robert Dilday
On Wednesday December 11, 2019, The Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff, Bishop Suffragan and Ecclesiastical Authority, Episcopal Diocese of Virginia came to Buckingham to see and hear for herself what social and environmental injustice looks like on the ground. Her first stop was...
Video: North Carolinians battle the $7.5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline
View short video on Youtube A wonderful new video from independent news outlet Grist. Eastern North Carolina is home to the environmental justice movement – and also to some of the state’s biggest threats to human and environmental health, the latest being the...
New Study: Charitable Gifts by Utilities Used to Win Public Support
In a first-of-its-kind analysis, the Energy and Policy Institute has examined the charitable contributions of 10 leading investor-owned electric utilities in the U.S., finding that all of these major utilities use charitable giving to manipulate politics, policies and...
Native Peoples ancient city sites along the James River would be impacted by the ACP
Letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) dated November 8, 2014, by Dhyani Simonini, includes historical information about the Native Peoples who thrived along the James River for thousands of years before the coming of the Europeans. FERC...