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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The fight against the ACP
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Pipelines & Compressor Stations
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...
Landowners be advised, by Irene Leech
While landowners should take a moment to celebrate the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, (ACP), we also need to remember that now is the time to get damage repaired and the company owns easements across our land. Dominion has said that it will not ask that...
ACP WIN zoom celebration 7-30-2020 NOW its a Done Deal
A fun, fine, joyful and tearful time was had by all. Friends of Buckingham wishes heartfelt, deep gratitude to our extended family of allies for all the amazing 6 years of collaborations, highs, lows, good times n bad. We weathered it all, and proved ourselves worthy...
Memo to: Buckingham Virginia Landowners with Atlantic Coast Pipeline Easements
Thanks to Irene for sending out 177!! letters to landowners in Buckingham County to assist in moving forward with working out equitable easement agreements with ACP. Thank you Irene! The following information is also available in pdf format: Memo to Landowners 72120...
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline was canceled. What happens to all the land acquired for it?
The bitterly fought Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been canceled, but the two major utilities behind it, Virginia-based Dominion Energy and North Carolina-based Duke Energy, still have not decided what to do about the land they gained control over for the project, in...
Abandoned Atlantic Coast Pipeline is the beginning of our clean energy future
Press Release from the Southern Environmental Law Center For Immediate Release: Monday, July 6, 2020 Contact: Greg Buppert, 434-977-4090, gbuppert@selcva.org Claudine Ebeid McElwain, 202-492-0659, cmcelwain@selcva.org Charlottesville, VA — After winning legal battles...
The demise of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline vindicates Friends of Buckingham
Friends of Buckingham For Immediate Release: July 6, 2020 Contacts: Chad Oba, President FoB, 434-806-6332 John Laury, Treasurer FoB, 434-390-7650 Heidi Dhivya Berthoud, Secretary FoB, 434-979-9732 Marie Gillespie, FoB Council, Executive Committee, 434-969-2867 News of...
The ACP: An Unpermitted Pipeline
Despite the ACP's uncertain future, its developers - Dominion and Duke Energy - have seized private property through eminent domain, felled swaths of forest, and spent $3.6 billion dollars! on this unnecessary boondoggle. The project is missing eight essential...
Other Environmental Issues
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....
Air pollution is the ‘new tobacco’, warns WHO head
Exclusive: Simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more, but ‘a smog of complacency pervades the planet’, says Dr Tedros Adhanom • Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: Air pollution is the new tobacco. Time to tackle this epidemic...
The Baptists and the yogis join to fight a pipeline
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. — Pastor Paul was nursing a sore throat, but as he preached on a sleepy Sunday morning in his little country church, he felt a rising sense of urgency. “Turning points!” the Rev. Paul Wilson shouted. Like the biblical Paul on the road to...
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...