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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
Action Needed! Please Write FERC Tell them: No Way! Time’s up
Dominion has asked FERC for a 2 year extension on its expiring certificate to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Without the extension, No ACP construction could happen after October 13, 2020. Submit your comments to FERC by 5 pm on Thursday, July 2, 2020, asking FERC...
Victory Dance! Perhaps for the first time, SCC withholds key permit for unjust gas project
The times they are a changing... Thanks to years of cumulative persistence, resistance, insistence, networking, dedicated hard work, and the urgent climate crisis, our allies have accomplished what was not possible years ago. That said, the resistance to...
AG Mark Herring Urges FERC to Halt New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Projects During COVID-19 Crisis
RICHMOND (May 7, 2020) – Attorney General Mark R. Herring today joined a coalition of 11 attorneys general in calling on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to impose an immediate moratorium on approvals of all new and pending applications for natural gas...
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is looking like a riskier investment every day
When announcing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, its owners, including Dominion Energy, said the project is essential for us to have the energy we need, will save us millions of dollars each year, foster economic development and be a windfall for shareholders. Events...
Nature Scores a Big Win Against Fracking in a Small Pennsylvania Town
After a seven-year battle, Grant Township fought off a permit for an injection well. “Fights like ours should mushroom all around Pennsylvania,” says town supervisor Grant Township, Pennsylvania; Mike Belleme for Rolling Stone An unlikely crew of environmentalists...
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline If built, the ACP will disrupt the pristine landscape & impact historic communities.
An Expedition led by Senior Fellow, Karen Kasmauski with the International League Of Conservation Photographers. For a stunning photographic essay and story of Union Hill in Buckingham County and also Nelson County please click HERE.
Sign the Action Letter: Protect Rural Areas from COVID-19 spread though pipeline man camps
To: Governors of Virginia and West Virginia It's the responsibility of governors to protect all the people in their states including rural regions. The Mountain Valley Pipeline and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction projects require transient pipeline workers...
Collection of information & resources for weathering the pandemic
Excerpts of Email from Delegate Chris Hurst on March 23, 2020 Private Sector Guidance: Below are some resources that private sector businesses can use to establish greater communication with state government. Register on the state Private Sector Portal to be added to...
Friends of Buckingham Spring Celebration CANCELLED
Update: This celebration is cancelled until further notice. Everyone! Please be well and safe! When: Saturday March 28, 11am - 3 pm Where: The BARN (Buckingham Agriculture Resource Network) 11851 W James Anderson Hwy, Buckingham 23921 What: Join us for a Spring Party...
Virginians Rallied in Protest of Trump’s Proposed NEPA Overhaul
By Blue Virginia - February 26, 2020 From the Virginia Sierra Club: Virginians Rallied in Protest of Trump’s Proposed NEPA Overhaul Climate advocates from across Virginia called on leaders to halt the rollback of NEPA Washington D.C. – The Trump administration...
Other Environmental Issues
Faith Delegation Recommends Urgent Action on Pipelines VAIPL report details moral implications of Atlantic Coast Pipeline Buckingham compressor station
RICHMOND, Virginia – In light of recent setbacks for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Virginia Interfaith Power & Light released a report today entitled Our Air, Our Lives: Religious Fact-Finding Delegation to Buckingham County. The report recommends urgent action,...
Now is the time to tell Governor Northam that you support investments in clean energy!
Right now the Northam administration is developing its Virginia Energy Plan, a roadmap for the commonwealth's energy policy over the next decade. We need to ensure Virginia’s economy is built on energy efficiency, solar power and smart storage solutions instead of...
James River Natural Community Bill of Rights
Buckingham: We the People (BWTP) is proud to announce the completion of their proposed ordinance, the James River Natural Community Bill of Rights (CBOR). The group has been working closely with Ben Price, of the Community Environmental Legal Defense (CELDF)...
Atlantic Coast Pipeline protesters: ‘We’re ready to go out in front of bulldozers’
RALEIGH About 30 protesters occupied Gov. Roy Cooper’s office Friday morning in downtown Raleigh, launching what they called a civil disobedience movement to block the construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Protesters said they are initiating the next stage of...
Pipeline isn’t done deal, will bring noxious effects
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is not a "done deal" and the zoning variance Dominion Energy and its partners seek and that would destroy the hard work and dreams of the Ryan Blosser family is not a "done deal" either. The ACP, if built, will require victims for...
Outlaws are more ethical than Dominion’s pipeline company
Ryan and Joy Blosser and their two children are at risk of being robbed of their livelihood and their domestic tranquility at the point of a pen. I do not know the Blossers personally, but I was moved by their presentation at the Augusta County Board of Zoning Appeals...
Future of Keystone XL pipeline becomes more muddled after PSC denies revisions
LINCOLN — The future of the Keystone XL pipeline became even more muddled Tuesday with further delays expected. The Nebraska Public Service Commission unanimously rejected TransCanada’s request to amend its application for a route across Nebraska. TransCanada said it...
Opposing Sides of Pipeline Project Weigh in on Water Permit Approval
Community activists and the energy company that plans to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are all trying to make sense of a state board's conditional approval of a water quality permit for the project. It requires Dominion Energy provide final, more detailed plans...
New Economic Analysis: Fracked-Gas Pipelines Could Lead to Billions More in Charges to Dominion Customers, No Job Growth in Virginia
You know how Gov. Terry McAuliffe has spent the past four years running around Virginia, repeating Dominion’s (laughable, false) talking points about how the Atlantic Coast Pipeline will be a “game changer” that will supposedly “spur economic growth in all parts of...
Water Testing Begins Along Gas Pipeline Route
12/05/2017 Release from Friends of Nelson: Some 20 households in Horizons Village near Nellysford in Nelson County, Virginia, will be testing their groundwater quality to gather baseline data suitable for legal action if and when the construction of the Atlantic Coast...
Environmental Justice
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...
Big company, big dollars, small community: Dominion deal sparks dissent in community facing gas project
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Chad Oba huddled on a narrow median strip, bundled against the falling snow. Passing cars honked at the sign she was holding, and behind her a crowd of fellow protesters chanted outside the local office of Dominion Energy as police stood watch. For...
How money stokes divide of historic black community in Virginia pipeline battle
Neighbors and families are pitted against one another over a natural gas pipeline project in Union Hill. In the end, who stands to lose? 'Dominion thought they can just come in and we'd all roll over,' said Ruby Laury, a cattle farmer with her husband in the Union...
A Tree-Sitter’s Perspective From 50 Feet Above the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
I’ve lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains for most of my life, often taking for granted the hiking trails, swimming holes, trout streams, and breathtaking beauty. Growing up, I never paused to consider the fragility of our forest ecosystem. I also didn’t know much about...
Dominion offers $5.1M to aid community Plan for Buckingham next to pipeline compressor station
Dominion Energy is offering $5.1 million for a package of improvements — including expanded emergency services and a new community center — for a predominantly African-American community next to the site of a natural gas compressor station Dominion is proposing in...
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Boyle and Shabazz column: Does Governor Northam care about environmental justice?
Pastor Paul Wilson’s Union Hill Baptist Church in Buckingham County is very near Dominion’s proposed compressor station site. 2015, TIMES-DISPATCH A year ago this week, then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe took an important step in creating the state’s first Advisory Council on...
Does Governor Northam care about environmental justice?
A year ago this week, then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe took an important step in creating the state’s first Advisory Council on Environmental Justice. Heeding the principle that “protection of our natural resources applies equally to all individuals,” the council’s charge is...
Southern Environmental Law Center sends statement to SAPCB re board’s authority on review of BCS
SELC delivers a clear statement to the SAPCB, laying out the provisions of law that allow them to deny this permit due to the deficiencies of the application to address site suitability, environmental justice, and lack of need. Read the 4 page brief here: SELC Air...
Join the Virginia Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival September 26
Join us! We are attending an event called Richmond, Virginia Poor People's Hearing. RSVP today and join the Virginia Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and National Co-Chairs Rev. Drs. Barber and Theoharis as we hold a Poor People's Hearing in...
Buckingham: We the People presentation in Waynesboro September 23, 3-6 pm
Mindy Zlotnick and Hanuman will present to the Waynesboro Community on the Community Rights and Rights of Nature Movement lead by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund [CELDF]. The film, "We the People 2.0" will be shown, followed by a discussion. Sunday...