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
Pressure mounting on Virginia environmental agency to slow down pipeline water certifications
Pressure from state lawmakers in both parties, as well as from hundreds of people who showed up at a series of public hearings this month, is mounting on the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and state Water Control Board to slow or reconsider the water...
Anti-Pipeline Groups Hold Third Annual Hands Across our Land Protest
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - People who oppose the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline are calling on lawmakers to stop the pipeline from crossing the Appalachian Trail in Central Virginia. Several anti-pipeline groups participated in the third annual Hands Across our...
Pipeline can’t help but bring mayhem to Virginia’s environment
(Photo: Submitted) Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline, if allowed to be built, will be the largest disturbance of land and water in the Commonwealth of Virginia since the Interstate highways were built. Is it possible or even probable that Dominion can dig up a 600...
Gas agreement near completion
A memorandum of understanding (MOU) that would allow Buckingham County access and control of 200 acres along a proposed lateral line off of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) could be agreed to by all parties as soon as next month. “We finally have reached a...
Hearing draws majority opposition
More than 70 people spoke during a contentious Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) public hearing in Jarman Hall at Longwood University on Thursday held to receive comments on draft water quality certifications “designed to protect water quality” along...
Close the Halliburton Loop
Why is fracking exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act, and five other bedrock environmental laws? In 2005, thanks to oil and gas industry lobbying, the EPA was stripped of its authority to regulate fracking. It’s called the Halliburton loophole....
Doing the Math: Dominion’s and FERC’s Own Numbers Tell Us the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a Budget Buster
You don’t need to rely on environmentalists’ climate calculations to know the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is carbon budget buster. Just look at the numbers provided in the past month by Dominion Energy Virginia and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. On July 14th,...
Hundreds, including Nelson residents, attend DEQ hearing on pipeline
ARRISONBURG – Before heading into James Madison University’s Festival Conference & Student Center on Monday evening, opponents and supporters of the proposed 600-mile, three-state Atlantic Coast Pipeline traded shouts across the lawn. As they held colorful signs...
‘Shut this madness down’
I think it is reasonable to expect household plumbing to leak. Now add to that a 42-inch, high-pressure, toxic, fracked-gas, 600-mile pipeline with shutoff valves every 20 miles and one Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration inspector for every 5,000...
Virginia’s environmental agency says contractor’s work for Dominion doesn’t pose a conflict on pipeline review
Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality, which is using a Mechanicsville-based environmental consulting firm to review the reams of plans that lay out how a pair of massive pending pipeline projects will manage erosion, sediment and stormwater during and after...
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