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
The fight against the ACP
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Pipelines & Compressor Stations
Questions remain on Dominion’s proposed pipeline
Federal regulators are poised to approve the hotly contested Atlantic Coast Pipeline that would stretch for 600 miles from West Virginia, through Virginia and on to North Carolina. The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has completed a generally...
In ‘aggressive move,’ federal agency overrules New York on pipeline permit
Legal experts predict New York environmental regulators will appeal decision. Federal energy regulators undercut a New York environmental agency Friday, allowing a pipeline company to go forward with a project the state had previously blocked. The Federal Energy...
FERC picks up where it left off, tackles backlog
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission renewed its monthly meetings Wednesday, with commissioners applauding efforts that kept the agency moving through its workload during the unprecedented six-month lapse of a quorum and acknowledging the still-hefty backlog of...
Leech: We don’t need either pipeline
Leech lives in Elliston and teaches consumer studies at Virginia Tech. “The two pipeline — one route alternative,” (Sept. 14 commentary) clearly was written by someone who only cares about western Virginia and is willing to dump on the part he doesn’t live in. He has...
Letter: Reasons to oppose pipeline
I oppose the Mountain Valley gas pipeline for the following reasons: Already too much real estate has been taken from Virginia commonwealth citizens via pipeline right-of-way and easements. The jobs promised by the state and gas company are only temporary....
Louisiana’s floating pipeline protest camp prepares to take on ‘the black snake’
The pipeline would pass through eight watersheds and many fragile wetlands. DONALDSONVILLE, LOUISIANA — Tour guides like to call Bayou Lafourche “the longest Main Street in the world.” The sleepy 65-mile stretch of water once lined with slave plantations now passes...
Pressing need to ‘increase profits’
Despite claims by the builders of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), the public interest will be best served if the ACP is not built. If the existing pipeline is used according to the 20-year agreements already in place to provide natural gas to Dominion...
Commerce Department’s analysis of Enbridge’s new pipeline could just be the death of this project
If the public relations industry gave achievement awards for wishful obfuscation, consideration would be due the Enbridge spinmeister who dismissed Monday’s Minnesota Department of Commerce analysis as “only one view” on permitting for the company’s Line 3 pipeline...
How Man-made Earthquakes Could Cripple the U.S. Economy
Massive tanks in Oklahoma brim with unrefined oil, but they weren’t designed to handle the rash of seismic activity caused by fracking-related activity. When Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas, U.S. oil refining plummeted to record lows. Now, nearly three weeks...
Dinniman renews call for DEP to release info on wells near Mariner East 2 pipeline’s path
WEST CHESTER >> State Sen. Andy Dinniman said Wednesday that he would appeal the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP’s) denial of his Right-to-Know Request to obtain a list of private groundwater wells located near the path of Sunoco Pipeline’s Mariner...
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