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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!
An archive of what went into this remarkable environmental accomplishment follows.
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Pipelines & Compressor Stations
Stalled Nexus pipeline to be subject of town hall meeting in Ann Arbor
Readers may recall our piece from March, about resistance to the proposed construction of the Nexus pipeline. The pipeline, in which DTE Energy is part owner, is essentially intended to carry natural gas fracked from the western Pennsylvania area to the Dawn Hub in...
Leech: ‘We deserve safety’
Everyone who lives within miles of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) should be concerned about safety. The company assures us that the ACP will be safe. However, most of the area through which the ACP passes is considered “low consequence” because there are...
Group planning anti-pipeline rally after surveyors kicked off a property
ROANOKE, VA - A group opposed to the Mountain Valley Pipeline is hosting an event this weekend, and gubernatorial candidate Tom Perriello will be there to support them. Bold Alliance representative Carolyn Reilly says just last week, she had to get sheriff's deputies...
EXCLUSIVE: Sabal Trail Pipeline Spills Covered Up by Federal Agency, Pipeline Company
In the latest example of gross negligence during the construction of a natural gas pipeline, construction workers for Florida Southeast Connection (FSC) Pipeline —which is the connecting pipeline that will eventually merge with the controversial Sabal Trail...
Appalachian pipeline emissions would be equal to 42 coal-fired power plants
New analysis uses coal-fired plants as guide for explaining pipeline’s life-cycle emissions. Given the crisis of global climate change, anti-fossil fuel activists have sought to draw attention to the climate impacts of extracting, transporting, and burning natural...
Group sues Virginia environmental agency over pipeline permitting
Groups fighting Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline are suing the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality over its decision to certify that a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers “blanket” permit for the project will adequately protect water quality in the state. The...
Public Hearing June 12 on the Buckingham proposed compressor station communications tower
Thanks to Irene Leech for these thoughts about the proposed Buckingham ACP compressor station communications tower. Also, please click here for a brief look at the shocking unequal protections/standards meted out by the Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety...
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...
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