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.
Pipelines & Compressor Stations
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Pipelines & Compressor Stations
The Fight Against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline: A Chronicle
"The Fight Against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline: A Chronicle" describes in detail significant developments associated with the six year opposition effort against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, from when the project was first proposed by Dominion Energy in early 2014...
Landowners United to Stop Pipelines
In case you missed -- it or would like to view the program again, here's the link to the recording of the Pipeline Fighters Hub's April 12 webinar, "Landowners United to Stop Pipelines": *View the webinar recording*. The program featured...
After The Deluge: Court Cases Go from Bad to Worse for Mountain Valley Pipeline
On April 7, Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 303-mile partly constructed pipeline that would carry highly pressurized fracked natural gas from West Virginia to Virginia, was in federal court again, this time in the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. After losing a...
Virginia regulatory board denies Mountain Valley Pipeline compressor station permit
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, State Air Pollution Control Board, Decision Minor New Source Review Permit for Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC, Lambert Compressor Station (MVP) Registration No. 21652: Excerpt: The Board...3) determined that the site is not...
Join the MVP ‘Violation Vigil’ Project Saturday December 11, 2 pm Richmond, VA
The Violation Vigil is a collaborative art project that gives poignant, visual and aural representation to the hundreds of water violations at the hands of Mountain Valley Pipeline. It is an invitation to stand in solidarity with the communities facing the MVP, and is...
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...
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...
Other Environmental Issues
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...
Mr Barlow goes to Kershaw, SC, home to the Haile open pit gold mine, to meet the neighbors
I drove to Kershaw, South Carolina, on October 28, 2020, where the Haile Gold Mine is located, and spent three days there to find out how the gold mining industry had impacted the town. The mine, owned by the Australian company OceanaGold, had been in full operation...
More resources on gold mining
Metal mining provides us with materials essential for modern life. But mining also devastates communities, clean water and the environment. Negative impacts of today’s metal mines Massive landslide at the Bingham Canyon mine in Utah. Photo: Deseret News. Destroyed...
Recent media coverage of gold mining in Buckingham
The Farmville Herald, October 21, 2020 "Buckingham - There's gold in them thar hills" Good coverage! Read here. Check out Sean Tubb's podcast Charlottesville Community Engagement - October 13, 2020: Gold mining in Buckingham; Charlottesville gets a new fire chief;...
Virginia Mercury: Buckingham’s next environmental fight? Maybe gold mining.
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is dead. So what’s next for Buckingham County? Gold, apparently. This month, plans by a Canadian gold mining company to extract the valuable commodity from thousands of acres of land in Buckingham surfaced, setting off a wave of alarm in a...
Gold Mining problems in brief & links to extensive resources
Buckingham Gold Project, Aston Bay Fact Sheet Compiled by Friends of Buckingham Water Pollution Groundwater contamination is of particular concern where the groundwater feeds surface streams or lakes, or where the groundwater is directly a source of potable water for...
Cumberland landfill public hearing Wednesday March 25th, 7-8:30 pm
County Waste/Green Ridge has filed a Notice of Intent and Part A Permit Application with the Department of Environmental Quality to develop a 1200-acre Landfill in eastern Cumberland County. This Heavy Industrial Facility will have a significant impact on the...
Should Nature Have Rights?
Tish O’Dell, Community Organizer for Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, https://celdf.org will be speaking at University of Richmond Law School on Wednesday March 4, Noon-1 pm, Building 203, Room 114. University Map Tish has been a leading advocate in the...
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...
Nuns on the Bus Leader to Hold Rural Roundtable in Dillwyn
NETWORK Continues Nationwide Series of Rural Roundtables in Virginia VIRGINIA — Sister Simone Campbell, SSS, Executive Director of NETWORK Advocates for Catholic Social Justice and leader of Nuns on the Bus will meet with residents and community leaders from around...
Environmental Justice
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...
Town Hall September 7. Our Air, Our Health, Our Common Future: The Fight to Save Union Hill
On September 7, a town hall was convened in Buckingham County. An invitation was sent out to our elected representatives. Over 120 people attended this event. See 6 minute video below and on the home page "Union Hill Residents..." The town hall was held in Union Hill...
After pipeline feud, Virginia nonprofit aims to reunite community with solar
A broken "no pipeline" sign rests outside a home in Union Hill, where residents are divided over Dominion Energy's plan to build a compressor station for the utility's Atlantic Coast Pipeline. A weeklong boot camp in Union Hill, Virginia, trained 10 area residents on...
Amicus Briefs Filed in Support of Buckingham Suit
Friends of Buckingham, et al. v. State Air Pollution Control Board, et al., is a case pending in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit involving the potential harms facing Union Hill, an African American community in Buckingham County, from the...
Citing Environmental Justice Concerns, Virginia State Conference NAACP Urges Federal Appeals Court to Stop Atlantic Coast Pipeline
The Virginia State Conference NAACP once again has reaffirmed its longstanding opposition to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In a court brief filed on April 12, the state NAACP has urged a federal appeals court in Washington to revoke the key federal permit for the...
Worldwide ban on fracking recommended by The Peoples’ Permanent Tribunal
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal has just released its Advisory Opinion, recommending a worldwide ban on hydraulic fracturing, the extreme oil and gas extraction technique known as ‘fracking.’ The materials, and infrastructure of fracking inherently and necessarily...
Extensive Media Coverage of: A Moral Call For Ecological Justice in Buckingham Tuesday 2-19-2019
Friends of Buckingham extends a warm and grateful thank you to Reverend Barber, Al Gore and Karenna Gore for accepting our ernest and urgent invitation to come to Union HIll, to draw and amplify ever widening attention to the injustices forced on the Union Hill...
Al Gore, civil rights leader William Barber call on Northam to seek forgiveness through action
Former vice president Al Gore and the Rev. William Barber II, left, talk with local resident Ella Rose in front of her home in Union Hill, Va. (Steve Helber/AP) BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. — The little front porch seemed like a pulpit as the Rev. William Barber II outlined...