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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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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...
Atlantic Coast Pipeline easement injustices continue/ Remembering Feb 19, 2019
The Farmville Herald editor thinks the $3.5 that Dominion is giving to Buckingham is the right thing to do, that it is benevolent. Huh. Why would you have to say that - is there doubt that it is benevolent? See the article of Wednesday February 17. We think it isn't -...
Please comment at Public Hearing Mon 1/11/21: Commercial Prospecting to be a by-right use
Public Hearing on Monday, January 11 at 6 pm. Please submit comments before noon, the day of meeting, or they will not be delivered. Talking points and resources follow these instructions. Please direct comments to the Public Hearing on January 11 on commercial...
Webinar Tues Jan 12, 6 pm: Learn about the threat of gold mining in Virginia
Please join us to learn about the threat of modern gold mining in Buckingham, the gold-pyrite belt in Virginia and beyond. Find out how this affects you, your drinking water and how you can take action to stop this assault on our inalienable rights to clean water,...
Mountain Valley Pipeline updates; Heroic Yellow Finch Tree Sits – more than 800 days
Mountain Valley Pipeline faces political, regulatory changes in 2021 The history of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, from the time it was first proposed to its projected completion, will soon span the terms of three U.S. presidents. So what impact will the incoming...
Extensive Colorado gold campaign; Gold mining 101; Planning meeting summary
This post has excellent coverage by 2 videos and Planning Commission report. A short video on the Colorado campaign to ban gold mining. And Mining 101 by Earthworks. Alexa Massey, for the Farmville Herald continues to do excellent reporting, making sense out of...
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...
Appalachian Voices denounces FERC’s greenlight for Mountain Valley Pipeline to resume
Press Release: In a snub to thousands of Appalachian landowners and others seeking to stop the unneeded, dangerous Mountain Valley Pipeline, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission late today voted 2-1 to extend its certificate for the project by two years, and...
Gold mining pollution threatens Buckingham County
Friends of Buckingham is alerting you to an urgent joint meeting with the Buckingham County Board of Supervisors and the Planning Commission. The meeting will take place on Tuesday, October 13 at 6 pm. Our county officials will be discussing changing an ordinance that...
A look at the Atlantic Coast Pipeline easement process that left Nelson landowners $15 million richer
Nelson County as seen from an overlook on the Rockfish Gap Turnpike in Afton, Virginia on Thursday, August 14, 2020.Kendall Warner/The News & Advance [Ya, well maybe... ACP won't be making reparations for all the years of head and heartache. Will they pay...
Other Environmental Issues
Rights of Nature Movement; protecting our world that we depend on
The Rights of Nature movement makes gains world wide and right here in Buckingham County, Virginia. Below are 2 exciting articles about the latest river, the Klamath in California, to gain the protective rights of personhood, like humans and corporations enjoy. Thomas...
Global Youth Climate Strike #FridaysFor Future September 20
Greta Thunberg, 16 year old Swedish student, started striking every Friday from school to protest the inaction of the adults to acknowledge and take charge of the #ClimateCrisis. She recently sailed across the Atlantic on a solar powered racing sail boat to attend to...
The latest U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service permit denied for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals announced today, Friday July 26, 2019, its decision to turn down the latest U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. This is a decided victory for those of us fighting this unneeded project. The...
Presentation: Climate Crisis – What We Can Do
Join us for an exploration of the reality of the impacts, solutions and what’s possible for us to do. Swami Dayananda & Mindy are trained Climate Reality Leaders, part of a group of thousands of volunteers in countries around the globe who have been personally...
Energy audit inspires Virginia yogis to ‘stand up for something that’s important’
Yogaville leaders hope their investments in solar power send a message about opposing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Elizabeth McGowan July 8, 2019 Elizabeth McGowan / Energy News Network Jeeva Abbate, right, tells John Laury about the solar system that powers...
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...
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...
Press Release: MAJOR GATHERING OF VIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTALISTS SET FOR YOGAVILLE FEB 1-3 AS THE MOVEMENT GROWS FOR RIGHTS OF NATURE OVER CORPORATE POWER
(LIVESTREAM VIDEO OF SPEECH BY FAMED ENVIRONMENTALIST AND IN-PERSON PRESS OPPORTUNITIES TO BE ANNOUNCED IN FOLLOWUP RELEASE) For Immediate Release January 25, 2019 Press Contacts: Sita Rose sitarose108@gmail.com 262 344 107 Mindy...
Ellerbrock: Of pipelines, people and principles
Buy Now Signs in Buckingham County protest Dominion’s proposed compressor station near the Union Hill community. Richmond Times-Dispatch | File 2017 By Mike Ellerbrock Ellerbrock is director of the Center for Economic Education at Virginia Tech, vicariate deacon for...
YOGAVILLE STATEMENT OF CONCERN
Satchidananda Ashram-Yogaville is seriously concerned by Gov. Northam’s dismissal of VA State Air Pollution Control (air board) Board members who expressed concern re: environmental justice On Nov 15, VA Governor Ralph Northam replaced two members of the air board....
Environmental Justice
Path to Racial Equity in VA Includes Environmental Justice
Black History Month is a time of remembrance – to remember and celebrate African American achievements and culture, but also to remember those parts of our nation’s history that we sometimes might like to forget. “Those who cannot remember the past,” as George...
Union Hill visit by Gore, Barber seeks to put Northam on spot
Gov. Ralph Northam can’t escape the spotlight as former Vice President Al Gore and the Rev. William J. Barber II bring a racial and environmental crusade Tuesday to a little community in Buckingham County with a big natural gas pipeline planned at its doorstep....
Press Release: A Statement on Behalf of the Buckingham County Democratic Committee
In a surprisingly bold statement released to the press, Buckingham County Dems say that "Gov. Northam can cease the environmental racism and great injustice that is being besieged upon Buckingham County’s Union Hill Community." Buckingham County Democratic Committee...
SELC Challenges Virginia Air Board Decision
In a press release on February 8, 2019, the Southern Environmental Law Center announced their challenge of the Air Pollution Control Board on behalf of the Union Hill Community. The press release states: Today the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of its...
Statement: The Real Ralph Northam
Press Release February 2, 2019 For us who live or work in Union Hill, Buckingham, Virginia, the revelations that Gov. Ralph Northam engaged in racist behavior in medical school over thirty years ago are less troubling than his most recent actions, inactions, and...
Document reveals effort to remove opposition of Native American tribes to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Members of the Lumbee tribe and other opponents of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline marched through Pembroke in Robeson County in late 2016. The ACP would traverse through Native American lands along its route, including in Robeson County. (File photo: Lisa Sorg) [Editor’s...
Breathing while black: A Dominion compressor station would disadvantage a historically black community in Virginia
A protester is removed from the Jan. 8 meeting of the Virginia State Air Pollution Control Board. (Steve Helber/Associated Press) By Vivian E. Thomson January 25 at 4:06 PM Vivian E. Thomson, a retired professor of environmental policy at the University of Virginia,...
Dominion Energy & Environmental Racism: a case study in how to lie with maps
Yes, the title is provocative, but its not entirely mine. I simply and liberally borrow from the classic Mark Monmonier primer entitled How to Lie with Maps. But the reality of this ‘case study’ is indeed provocative, and it amounts to nothing less than outright...
Two reports: Fjord Union Hill Community Household Study & Dominion’s Community Engagement
This is what Environmental inJustice looks like. Read both reports. Lakshmi Fjord, PhD lays out the history of attack, omissions, falsifications surrounding the siting of the proposed ACP Buckingham compressor station [BCS] by local, state, federal agencies and...
Letter of Support for Justice for Union Hill, with support from Karenna Gore and others, updated 12-27-18
The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board fails to uphold Environmental Justice; approves air permit for compressor station in a 4-0 vote on Tuesday, January 8. This massive, 54,000+ hp natural gas compressor station would be in the predominantly...