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
New Economic Analysis: Fracked-Gas Pipelines Could Lead to Billions More in Charges to Dominion Customers, No Job Growth in Virginia
You know how Gov. Terry McAuliffe has spent the past four years running around Virginia, repeating Dominion’s (laughable, false) talking points about how the Atlantic Coast Pipeline will be a “game changer” that will supposedly “spur economic growth in all parts of...
Water Testing Begins Along Gas Pipeline Route
12/05/2017 Release from Friends of Nelson: Some 20 households in Horizons Village near Nellysford in Nelson County, Virginia, will be testing their groundwater quality to gather baseline data suitable for legal action if and when the construction of the Atlantic Coast...
FERC Says Emails Prove Rover Lied About Demolishing This Old House
In May 2015, Rover purchased a house in Carroll County, OH, located near where the pipeline, and a compressor station for that pipeline, is due to run. Rover bought the house to use for offices for several Rover affiliate companies. After buying it, Rover determined...
“Campaign to elect a pipeline:” Va.’s most powerful company ran multi-front fight
RICHMOND -- Dominion Energy was taking no chances with the fate of its proposed natural gas pipeline during this year’s election season, even though both major candidates for governor supported the $5 billion project. The state’s most powerful corporation, along with...
Pipelines Ruin Farmland Across the Country
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline would each cross hundreds of private properties. Many of these private properties are farms, and farmers are rightfully concerned about damage to their farmland from pipeline construction, as well as ongoing...
LIFE IN THE SACRIFICE ZONE
As I look back over the past decade of my life, ever since the fossil fuel industry set its sights on PA’s Marcellus Shale, several memories stand in sharp relief against the blurred background of 1,000 remembered conversations, hearings, presentations, testimonies,...
The East Coast’s pipeline wars: A cheat sheet
The expansion of natural gas infrastructure along the East Coast has created a seemingly endless queue of new pipeline battles involving landowners, environmentalists, states and the federal government. Some of the proposed pipelines have similar names. A handful have...
Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Environmental Racism, and the Appalling Silence of the Good People
In April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested as part of the Birmingham Campaign, an effort to bring national attention to systemic racism in one of America’s most segregated cities. As he sat in a jail cell, King wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail,...
Keystone’s existing pipeline spills far more than predicted to regulators
(Reuters) - TransCanada Corp’s (TRP.TO) existing Keystone pipeline has leaked substantially more oil, and more often, in the United States than indicated in risk assessments the company provided to regulators before the project began operating in 2010, according to...
Opposition to Atlantic Coast Pipeline grows with plans to seize land
In “Atlantic Coast Pipeline Builder set to seize property” (Nov. 17), it says “the Atlantic Coast Pipeline has undisputed legal authority to use private land for the project,” giving the impression that because eminent domain is being used this project is necessary...
Other Environmental Issues
Dominion plans three new solar farms – Richmond Times-Dispatch: Business
New solar power farms could be coming to Louisa, Powhatan and Isle of Wight counties, Dominion Virginia Power announced Thursday. Source: Dominion plans three new solar farms - Richmond Times-Dispatch: Business Note the relatively small investment compared to the ACP,...
Augusta Service Authority comment to FERC- Is the route changing again?
Download the document augusta service authority If you want to see the negligence of Dominion and the audacity of the FERC, watch this struggle. This is a critical area where the ACP route may be forced to alter substantially, and or FERC will be caught doing...
Renewables overtake coal in the UK energy mix for the first time
Thanks to an increase in solar panels and wind turbines, as well as a particularly sunny and windy quarter, renewable energy has supplied a record 25% of the UK’s energy mix in Q2 2015, leapfrogging coal for the first time. Source: Renewables overtake coal in the UK...
Editorial: True conservatives support environmental protection
A Democratic president’s trip reminds Republicans of their historic ties to environmentalism. Theodore Roosevelt’s embrace of conservation planted the seeds for the environmental movement. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency. Source: Editorial: True...
Dept of Conservation and Recreation comments to FERC 09/04/2015
pdf of comments submitted to FERC including various resources under their protection/development. also some of the endangered species and ecosystems they are concerned about
Third U.S. City Goes 100% Renewable
Aspen is one of three U.S. cities to run on 100 percent renewable energy as of today, according to city officials. The Colorado mountain town is best known for its posh ski resorts, but this beautiful town also has established itself as a leader in environmental...
Week of Moral Action for Climate Justice
“Pope Francis, We Heard Your Call for a Conversation, Let's Talk Climate Justice” Date: Thursday, September 24, 2015 Where: The National Mall – Between 4th & 7th Streets, NW, Washington, DC Join Wild Virginia, the Virginia Sierra Club, and other regional pipeline...
Firm seeking to build $35 million solar facility in Buckingham
Virginia Solar LLC is seeking to construct a $35 million solar energy facility at 623 High Rock Road in Buckingham County. The firm is seeking a special use permit from the county to construct the facility, which would include ancillary support facilities and...
Fish and Wild life FERC filing
fish and wildlife comments check out this comment, as it contains numerous protected species of plants and animals that may be familiar to you. If so there are instructions here for contacting Fish and wildlife to let them know more reasons that might stop this...
The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here
The worst predicted impacts of climate change are starting to happen — and much faster than climate scientists expected Source: The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here
Environmental Justice
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