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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
This Coastal Town Banned Tar Sands and Sparked a War with the Oil Industry
South Portland's fight is a cautionary tale about the power of money — and whether towns can set their own rules about oil and gas infrastructure. SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine—Can communities say no to energy companies? Hundreds of miles from the nearest oil field or...
Tension mounts as stun gun, police dogs used at Sandisfield pipeline protest
SANDISFIELD — On the very day the pipeline company got permission to put its new third line in service here, three anti-pipeline activists were arrested for blocking a road, and witnesses say Massachusetts State Police used a stun gun on one man when he tried to run...
Community members protest approved pipelines
Local Rockingham County and Harrisonburg community members stand in solidarity with the pipeline fighters across the commonwealth in the anti-pipeline group called Rockingham Alliance for the Protection and Transformation of Our Resources and Society. The emergence of...
DEP: Pipeline construction caused sediment to enter three Lebanon County streams
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued its second notice of violation in five days Monday against the builder of the Mariner East 2 natural gas liquids pipeline for problems involving waterways in Lebanon County. This one stemmed from a DEP...
Montgomery County asks FERC for rehearing on Mountain Valley pipeline
Last week, Roanoke County requested a rehearing from FERC At a meeting this week, the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution to petition FERC for a rehearing on the authorization of the construction and operation of the Mountain...
DEP refuses to allow pipeline drilling to resume at Snitz Creek
(Lebanon) -- Mariner East 2 pipeline builder Sunoco needs to work harder to prevent "drilling mud" spills, not just treat them after the fact. That's the gist of a notice of violation the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued against Sunoco Friday...
Should Pipeline Protesters Be Treated As Domestic Terrorists?
Earlier this week a group of 84 members of Congress sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking if the department plans to pursue an investigation against protesters who sabotaged pipelines and equipment last year in an effort to block the completion of the...
Congressmen push Jeff Sessions to call environmentalists terrorists
Four Democrats join 80 Republicans on letter asking the Attorney General to treat pipeline sabotage as domestic terrorism. Environmental activists who sabotage oil and gas pipelines to protect land, water, and the climate should be treated like out-and-out terrorists,...
Police Used Private Security Aircraft for Surveillance in Standing Rock No-Fly Zone
The FAA’s no-fly zone barred indigenous drone pilots from documenting the NoDAPL struggle, but private security aircraft continued surveillance. At the height of the movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline’s construction last fall, the Federal Aviation...
The Battle of Treaty Camp
One year ago today, on October 27, 2016, hundreds of law enforcement officers descended on a small resistance camp that stood directly in the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline, forcibly evicting residents and arresting 142 people — more than on any other day in the...
Other Environmental Issues
The biggest story in the world podcast | Environment | The Guardian
Climate change is the biggest story journalism has never successfully told. The Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, has decided to change that. This podcast series follows Rusbridger and his team as they set out to find a new narrative on the greatest threat...
Hampton Roads Solar Group
Source: Hampton Roads Solar Group Just a reminder to those who think Dominion is honestly doing it's best for clean energy, remember it "encourages" legislators to keep solar production limited, and takes it's sweet old time in developing it's own solar, wind, etc,...
Look out fossil fuel, Tesla just unveiled a 10kw battery
The major upshot of more and cheaper batteries could be a much greener planet. Source: Why Tesla’s announcement is such a big deal: The coming revolution in energy storage - The Washington Post Here's a more complete explanation on youtube, a must see, watch, read,...
FERC comment from Appalachian Trail Conservancy
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Pope Francis Steps Up Campaign on Climate Change, to Conservatives’ Alarm – NYTimes.com
An effort by the pope to further the issue of climate change and environmental stewardship is already angering some thinkers on the American right. Source: Pope Francis Steps Up Campaign on Climate Change, to Conservatives’ Alarm - NYTimes.com
Dominion wants to slow up wind development
Dominion says off-shore wind project could cost far more than expected - Richmond.com: Richmond Area Business News. Funny, any other project and they'd make a couple campaign donations and pass a new law, but renewable energy hits a bump and they're suddenly...
Climate Change Denial Disorder with Ed Begley Jr. from Ni…
Climate Change Denial Disorder with Ed Begley Jr.
Divesting from fossil fuels is gaining momentum
Friends, Something amazing is unfolding on campuses across the country. Yesterday morning, 48 students launched a sit-in at Yale University to demand their administration divest from fossil fuels, and yesterday evening 19 were arrested for refusing to leave the...
Virginia water demand to jump 32 percent by 2040, report says – Richmond.com: Local News
Virginia water demand to jump 32 percent by 2040, report says - Richmond.com: Local News.
Syracuse University to divest $1.18bn endowment from fossil fuels | Environment | The Guardian
Syracuse University to divest $1.18bn endowment from fossil fuels | Environment | The Guardian.
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