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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Pipelines & Compressor Stations
Pennsylvania School Now Doing Emergency Drills in Case of Pipeline Explosion
At the Glenwood Elementary School in Media, Pennsylvania, roughly 450 students interrupted their regular schedules one day this month for an unusual emergency drill. Just after 1:30 p.m. on May 3, the entire student body practiced sheltering in place in the school's...
ET Rover pipeline drilling technique under fire from activist groups
Sierra Club and activist groups from Michigan and Ohio reque Grassroots and environmental groups want the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to stop Energy Transfer's Rover Pipeline from using a drilling technique that recently caused the spillage of millions of gallons of...
OH EPA Says Diesel Fuel Found in Rover 2M Gal Drilling Mud Spill
Rover is Energy Transfer’s $3.7 billion, 711-mile Marcellus/Utica natural gas pipeline that will run from PA, WV and eastern OH through OH into Michigan and eventually into Canada. On April 13, Rover workers experienced an “inadvertent return” of “horizontal...
Path of the Pipeline: Hazel Palmer
The Southern Environmental Law Center has just released the first in a series of short video clips profiling the impacts of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. I strongly commend to you this excellent video (under 4 minutes long)....
Appalachian Trail Hikers Protest McAuliffe’s Support of Fracked Gas Pipelines
CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 2, 2017 CONTACT: Stephanie Weber, Virginia Director, Chesapeake Climate Action Network; stephanie@chesapeakeclimate.org; 757-871-8639 Denise Robbins, Communications Director, Chesapeake Climate Action...
Opinion/Editorial: DEQ muddies waters over permit plans
Oops! The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality denies that it’s backpedaling on a statement that it would review water crossings necessitated by the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines. Yet, after saying in April that it would require a separate...
Ohio finds improper hydrocarbons in ETP Rover drilling fluid -FERC
June 1 (Reuters) - U.S. federal energy regulators said Thursday that Ohio found petroleum hydrocarbon constituents, commonly found in diesel fuel, in drilling fluid samples near a spill that occurred during Energy Transfer Partners' construction of the Rover natural...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: May 31
Dominion targeting low-income communities with pipeline Twenty-four of the 25 counties that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) would impact are below the median income level for their state. These low income counties will suffer further if the pipeline is constructed,...
Wellman: FERC shows its true colors
The draft environmental impact statement on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is massive -- over 2,300 pages. Reviewing it is a daunting task. But in their one and a half page treatment of the “No Action Alternative” required by law, FERC’s bottom line is clear: the...
‘Pipeline is not needed anymore’
http://www.farmvilleherald.com/2017/05/pipeline-is-not-needed-anymore/ Farmville Herald - Published 11:04 am Thursday May 24, 2017 By Joseph Jeeva Abbate
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