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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
Regulators to consider changing gas pipeline approval policy
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) said Thursday it would review its nearly two-decade-old policy for approving natural gas pipelines. While the commission did not commit to any particular changes, the announcement is a win for environmentalists who have...
Second court challenge filed over water quality certification for Mountain Valley Pipeline
A group of landowners, conservation groups and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates brought a court challenge Monday to a state board’s finding that a natural gas pipeline would pose no danger to the streams and creeks that lie in its path. The petition for...
Would the Atlantic Coast Pipeline be the job creator its TV ads claim?
Dominion and Duke Energy got more bad news about their controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline project this month, with North Carolina regulators announcing they would not issue the necessary air quality permit for a planned compressor station in Northampton County by...
Dominion Sues to Condemn Ralph Northam’s Family Farm to Build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
by Jonathan Sokolow Every part of that headline is true – except, of course, the reference to Ralph Northam. Governor-Elect Northam’s 75-acre family farm on the Eastern Shore is far from the path of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and therefore safe from Dominion’s...
Pipeline would carry inherent risks to water supply
To the editor: The front page of the Nov. 12 Herald-Mail reported on the rebuilding of the Conococheague Aqueduct in Williamsport, an $8.9 million project to enhance and promote tourism of the C&O Canal National Historical Park. Then, on Nov. 17 came the news...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: For Sunday, Dec. 17
Will Dominion be the DuPont of 2042? While I was excited to read that decades of hard fought battles are resulting in the grants that Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced for Waynesboro last week, it’s sad to think that DuPont, the very “jobs lifeline” of this area for so...
State Water Control Board meetings for the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast Pipelines
Whitney Whiting's Voice: Audio report "End of the Line" on WRIR 97.3 Richmond, an ongoing podcast about the pipeline struggles in the mid Atlantic and Virginia. Excellent coverage! Inside the State Water Control Board meetings for the Mountain Valley and Atlantic...
Lost property value just another form of Dominion theft
Are we surprised? On Thursday, November 23rd, John Bruce reported in The Recorder, Highland County’s newspaper, that “land values near Dominion’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline have dropped substantially in anticipation of construction next year." This was not...
Burleson Co. pipeline explosion, fire seen for miles
BURLESON COUNTY, Texas – A Wednesday morning pipeline explosion and fire has been contained, but residents in two counties reported seeing the glow from the fire. The fire, burning along County Road 132 around two miles north of Middle Yegua Creek, was reported around...
Opposing Sides of Pipeline Project Weigh in on Water Permit Approval
Community activists and the energy company that plans to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are all trying to make sense of a state board's conditional approval of a water quality permit for the project. It requires Dominion Energy provide final, more detailed plans...
Other Environmental Issues
BBC News – What is climate change?
What do we know about global warming? Climate change explained in six graphics #COP21 Source: BBC News - What is climate change?
Co-ops help Va. homeowners tap the power of the sun
solar movement hitting Richmond
World Governments: Keep Fossil Fuels Underground.
2015 is on track to be the hottest year in recorded history, and this December world governments will meet in Paris for the biggest climate talks since 2009. Right now, commitments by world governments are falling short of where the world needs them to be. We need way...
Official YouTube Blog: Climate change affects the things we love. #OursToLose
Source: Official YouTube Blog: Climate change affects the things we love. #OursToLose
Researchers: The World Could Go Green by 2050
The technological capability exists for the entire world to be powered with renewable energy, researchers have found. It's the political willpower that's in question. Source: Researchers: The World Could Go Green by 2050
Video: What’s at stake at the Paris climate talks | Sierra Club
The UN climate talks begin next week. A strong climate agreement may be the turning point we need to begin protecting our planet from the worst impacts of climate change.Watch the video to find out what's at stake at the Paris climate talks and share the video with...
Measuring the Climate-Services of Forests to Fight Global Warming | WVTF
October was the sixth month in a row of the warmest temperatures ever recorded. That's according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Source: Measuring the Climate-Services of Forests to Fight Global Warming | WVTF
First EPA chief accuses Republicans of ignoring science for political gain | Environment | The Guardian
William Ruckelshaus, who this week will receive the presidential medal of freedom, says candidates are harming US’s reputation ahead of Paris climate talks Source: First EPA chief accuses Republicans of ignoring science for political gain | Environment | The Guardian
Bill Nye + Arnold Schwarzenegger Confront Climate Denial Head On
Bill Nye teamed up with Arnold Schwarzenegger to confront climate denial head on in an episode of National Geographic's Explorer, Bill Nye's Global Meltdown Source: Bill Nye + Arnold Schwarzenegger Confront Climate Denial Head On
Canada Now Has A Minister Of Climate Change
Words matter. Source: Canada Now Has A Minister Of Climate Change
Environmental Justice
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