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
Massive natural gas power plant proposed in Cumberland County along the James River
Dominion Energy has announced plans for a massive new 3,000-megawatt natural gas power plant in Cumberland County along the James River — a project so enormous it would be roughly five times larger than Dominion’s existing Bear Garden Power Plant, which already…
ABC News 7 Covers the Valley Link
Opposition to Valley Link, a proposed high-voltage transmission line in Central Virginia. continues to grow, drawing wider attention as ABC News Channel 7 reports on residents fighting to stop a project they say would carve through communities to power data centers—at…
Public Comment Thursday April 23, 5 pm
NO VALLEY LINK What is it? Dominion Energy has proposed the construction of “Joshua Falls to Yeat,” a 115-mile 765,000-volt transmission Powerline that would cut through Central Virginia from Culpeper to Campbell County. Nine counties risk being affected if it is…
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY: This is your time to show up!
Please attend the April 20th Board of Supervisors meeting at 6pm to show your support for blocking Valley Link from building their 765kV structure through 20 miles of BUCKINGHAM COUNTY. Valley Link is NOT following right-of-ways. This is a new green space swath that…
Buckingham Citizens Meeting to Stop Valley Link, Saturday April 11
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY: Reminder that our county citizen meeting is scheduled tomorrow, Saturday, April 11 at 2:00pm in the Dillwyn Community Center. Your voice and strategy ideas are needed so we can collaboratively try to block Valley Link from building the monstrous…
United We Stand
We’re joining with Paul McDonald and residents across nine Central Virginia counties, as we say No Valley Link ! There’s power in numbers. We call on everyone who loves Virginia to jump on this bandwagon….
Public Input Barred tonight by Buckingham County’s Board of Supervisors
ATTN BUCKINGHAM COUNTY Here is the link to the YouTube channel for Buckingham County’s Board of Supervisors meeting tonight. They are not accepting public comments at the meeting. They are discussing a resolution related to the Joshua Falls to Yeat transmission…
Alert: March 24 Valley Link Buckingham Smoke-and-Mirrors Event
Contact: Kenda Hanuman, hanumankenda2025@gmail.com, 434-969-1586 Chad Oba, chado108@icloud.com, 434-806-6332 Friends of Buckingham (FOB) has been to Dominion’s Dog and Pony show before. Their engineers knew less than we did about their proposals and the real impacts…
Riverstone Solar Construction Town Hall, March 4th
The next Riverstone Solar town hall is tomorrow, Wednesday, March 4th, 5 pm–7pm at the Arvonia Fireman’s Building. This is the fourth quarterly meeting. Developer representatives will be present. Construction is currently on hold, and representatives have said it is…
An Electric Super-Highway Through Buckingham and the Piedmont
We in Friends of Buckingham are grateful to our friends at the Piedmont Environmental Council for allowing us to share their insights into the dire costs this will bear for all of us across the Virginia Commonwealth. Coming: $1 billion, 115-mile Transmission Line Dear…
Other Environmental Issues
Massive natural gas power plant proposed in Cumberland County along the James River
Dominion Energy has announced plans for a massive new 3,000-megawatt natural gas power plant in Cumberland County along the James River — a project so enormous it would be roughly five times larger than Dominion’s existing Bear Garden Power Plant, which already…
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY: This is your time to show up!
Please attend the April 20th Board of Supervisors meeting at 6pm to show your support for blocking Valley Link from building their 765kV structure through 20 miles of BUCKINGHAM COUNTY. Valley Link is NOT following right-of-ways. This is a new green space swath that…
An Electric Super-Highway Through Buckingham and the Piedmont
We in Friends of Buckingham are grateful to our friends at the Piedmont Environmental Council for allowing us to share their insights into the dire costs this will bear for all of us across the Virginia Commonwealth. Coming: $1 billion, 115-mile Transmission Line Dear…
A New “Interstate of Power” Is Coming — And the Land Will Pay the Price
A massive new high-voltage transmission line is being planned across the heart of Central Virginia, and the scale of what’s proposed should concern every resident and landowner — especially in Buckingham County and neighboring communities. Valley Link — a joint…
Urgent Request to Deny Green Ridge Landfill
Dear Cumberland County Supervisors, Friends of Buckingham strongly urges you to deny the request to construct the Green Ridge Landfill in Cumberland County. While the proposed site is within your borders, the impacts will stretch far beyond affecting the environment,…
Join Us in Supporting the Virginia Bottle Bill
Jaimi McPeek – Hi everyone! Many of you know me as your local environmental scientist, but I’m also working on something much bigger—I am the Legislative Director for the VA Bottle Bill, a proposed recycling refund program. Here’s how it works: When you buy a…
NAACP Urges Lawmakers: Consider Impact Widespread Solar Adoption
Friends of Buckingham applauds this local news coverage. Environmental justice, solar development among top legislative concerns for Henry County-Martinsville NAACP leadership
Growing Solar, Protecting Nature
The where and how of the solar projects placement is critical. When forests and agricultural lands are lost, the valuable services they provide like clean air, clean water, flood protection, and carbon capture also go missing. Harvard Forest and Mass Audubon present a…
VACo’s Podcast Series on Utility-scale Solar
A great podcast series from the “Voice of the Commonweath Counties” explains the threats facing us now. Part 1. Utility-Scale Solar – Legislative Outlook with Dean Lynch https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Z8nAfIo6YBBsPseIuCr13 In the first of a 2-part…
DEQ Fines Energix Renewable Energies over $150,000 for Violations
DEQ fines Energix Renewable Energies over $150,000 for environmental violations— further damaging its reputation in Virginia. Citing Energix violations of some 75 legal requirements of the State Water Control Law, permits, and regulations, the Virginia Department of…
Environmental Justice
Special Virginia Senate Election, Tuesday Jan. 7
There will be a special election on Tuesday, Jan. 7 to replace state Senator McGuire, who was elected to Congress. The Democratic candidate is Jack Trammell and the Republican is Luther Cifers. Early voting will be December 27, 28, and 30, and January 3 and 4. Find…
DEQ Fines Energix Renewable Energies over $150,000 for Violations
DEQ fines Energix Renewable Energies over $150,000 for environmental violations— further damaging its reputation in Virginia. Citing Energix violations of some 75 legal requirements of the State Water Control Law, permits, and regulations, the Virginia Department of…
Retrospective: EJ played a pivotal role with the ACP
Lakshmi Fjord recounts the pivotal role environmental justice played in the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline Learning how to fight environmental injustice through legal evidence became Friends of Buckingham’s specialty and major work leading to the…
State panel studies potential impact of gold mining in Virginia
The State Agency gold mining study work group meeting on Monday May 16 caught the attention of Joe Dashiell, senior reporter for WDBJ7 TV out of Roanoke and Richmond. Joe managed to distill well the essentials of the advisements of speaker Steve Emerman. From the…
The Virginia EnvironmentalJustice Collaborative’s (VEJC) annual “ON CURRENT WATCH” W 3/9, 11 AM
Support our efforts towards achieving environmental justice in Virginia. VEJC’s purpose is to identify environmental justice communities across the state, to develop EJ leadership, to provide room at the table for these organizations in statewide policy…
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…
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…
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…
Determining Disparate Impacts in Environmental Justice Communities: Does Friends of Buckingham v. State Air Pollution Control Board Provide the Roadmap?
It has long been recognized that minority and disadvantaged communities are subject to higher levels of pollution than more affluent non-minority areas. This fact is the basis of the need for Environmental Justice to ensure that the past disparate impacts to these…
Brown Grove: An historic Virginia community is running out of time.
The community of Brown Grove in Hanover County is knitted together by a single ancestor, a freedwoman named Caroline Morris, who helped found the community during the Reconstruction. Now, all these years later, Caroline’s descendants are still battling injustices….
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