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
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...
Massive gas line explosion leaves 18-foot crater in Orion Township
A ruptured gas line caused a massive explosion and fire in an area of Orion Township near the Great Lakes Crossing Outlets mall on Monday night. A ruptured gas line caused an explosion and massive fire that left an 18-foot-deep crater in an area of Orion Township near...
Sierra Club takes VA State Corporation Commission to court over inaction on Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Sierra Club is asking the Supreme Court of Virginia to require the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to review a key deal for shipping capacity on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The SCC has thus far declined to exercise its oversight authority over this arrangement,...
‘Outside agitators’ expected in North Carolina to protest pipeline
State law enforcement officials told legislators Thursday that they're expecting "outside agitators" to come to North Carolina in the coming months to protest the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The comments came during a presentation about the N.C. Information Sharing and...
Nearly 1,000 Wintergreen Property Owners To Sue Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Friends of Wintergreen announced today that nearly 1,000 Wintergreen property owners plan to individually sue the Atlantic Coast Pipeline for damages to their property if the pipeline company seizes land used by the Wintergreen community. These actions follow a rare...
Other Environmental Issues
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
Board of Supervisors Review Comprehensive Plan
Monday August 10, 7 pm Board of Supervisors Review Buckingham County Comprehensive Plan Please turn up in large numbers at the Buckingham County Administrative Building to show that we care about what happens in Buckingham County! Spencer Phillips, Ph.D. of Key-Log...
Why the Saudis Are Going Solar
The fate of one of the biggest fossil-fuel producers may now depend on its investment in renewable energy. Read more.
Two Numbers: Solar Energy’s Price Drop, Ahead of Schedule, Could Help Save the Planet
Earlier this month, the White House announced the launch of a series of measures intended to make solar power more accessible to low- and middle-income households. Brian Deese, senior adviser to President Barack Obama on climate, said the administration aims to...
Sun. July, 19 – Prayer Meeting at Yogaville
Sunday July 19 1:45 pm Sivananda Hall, Yogaville Prayer Meeting: NO Pipeline! YES! to a sustainable, healthy, beautiful, wholesome world.
Greening the Desert
Geoff Lawton on greening desert land in Jordan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sohI6vnWZmk
Dutch students reveal solar-powered family car
Dutch students have developed a new family car that is not only powered by the sun, but generates more energy than it uses. Stella Lux seats up to four people and is designed to be efficient, intelligent and comfortable. It will compete in the World Solar Challenge in...
Even The Pope Gets It – Carbon Markets Won’t Fix The Climate | IFLScience
Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment has quickly made him one of the world’s most significant figures in the climate debate. His message was notable not just for its acceptance of mainstream climate science but also for its outright rejection of market logic....
Prince Charles: To limit climate change we will need to see profound changes | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui8zj-yWaPk Read the heir to throne’s ‘Rewiring the economy’ speech in full, in which he addresses the challenges of climate change, sustainable development and economic reform Source: Prince Charles: To limit climate change we will...
For Faithful, Social Justice Goals Demand Action on Environment – The New York Times
For an earnest young Christian named Ben Lowe, revelation came on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in Africa. A relentless warming of the lake was reducing the catch of fish, the people were going hungry — and he had learned of scientific evidence that climate change...
Environmental Justice
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