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
Could Courts Stop The Pipelines?
Last week, Virginia’s Supreme Court upheld a state law that allows natural gas companies to survey private property without the owner’s permission for a proposed pipeline, but legal experts say landowners could still block construction as Sandy Hausman reports. Future...
Tribal Members in Oklahoma Defeat Natural Gas Pipeline Company
Federal court orders removal of natural gas pipeline in Oklahoma for trespassing on original Kiowa Indian lands The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma has ordered a natural gas pipeline operator to cease operations and remove the pipeline located...
Gas Company Sues to End County Oversight After Massive Natural Gas Disaster
LOS ANGELES (CN) – After a massive methane gas leak at SoCalGas’s Aliso Canyon underground gas storage facility displaced thousands of families and took more than 100 days to plug, many residents in surrounding neighborhoods felt the energy company had gotten off...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: July 17
Court shelves property rights in favor of Dominion land grab I am disappointed, although not surprised by the Virginia Supreme Court rulings regarding surveying for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). Our personal freedoms and private property rights have been...
Natural Gas Building Boom Fuels Climate Worries, Enrages Landowners
They landed, one after another, in 2015: plans for nearly a dozen interstate pipelines to move natural gas beneath rivers, mountains and people's yards. Like spokes on a wheel, they'd spread from Appalachia to markets in every direction. Together these new and...
Texas Pipeline Just Leaked 50,000 Gallons of Crude Oil
(ANTIMEDIA) Bastrop County, TX — A crude oil pipeline spill in Bastrop County, Texas, Thursday morning released an estimated 1,200 barrels of oil — over 50,000 gallons — prompting evacuations of residents closest to the rupture. The Longhorn Pipeline is owned and...
Pipeline Drilling Creating Issues With Well Water In Chester County
WEST WHITELAND, Pa. (CBS)–Some residents in Chester County are dealing with brown water flowing into their homes, and some have lost their well water completely. They blame a pipeline Sunoco is digging beneath their properties. David Mano showed CBS3 brown and cloudy...
Pipeline survey crew surprises Bent Mountain landowners with early morning entry
BENT MOUNTAIN — As Tuesday dawned, Mike Lester spotted a group of pipeline surveyors hustling on foot down Green Hollow Drive, a private road on Bent Mountain that passes by Lester’s home. “They was getting along pretty good,” Lester said later. He phoned neighbor...
A pipeline that would cut through the iconic Appalachian Trail sparks a fight over natural gas
The stretch of Appalachian Trail through the Blue Ridge Mountains here is prized by hikers from around the world for its open ridgelines, spectacular geologic formations and challenging slopes. But one of the country’s most iconic viewsheds could soon be changed...
Supreme Court of Virginia hands pipeline foes small victory, but project rolls on
RICHMOND — The Supreme Court of Virginia ruled Thursday on two cases related to the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline, handing opponents a minor victory but otherwise leaving the huge project unscathed. The court found in favor of a small group of landowners in...
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