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
DEQ seeks certifications for pipeline
Comments by Chad Oba of Friends of Buckingham (www.friendsofbuckinghamva.org). Farmville Herald | Jordan Miles | April 11, 2017 Read More
Oklahoma’s drinking water is at risk from fracking, new report finds
In some parts of the country, people are urged to pray for rain. In Oklahoma, the governor once told people to pray for oil prices. But as oil and gas fracking continue to spread throughout the state, Oklahomans’ concern might be more about the industry’s impact on...
Acclaimed environmental activist Lois Gibbs to encourage pipeline opponents
Ms. Gibbs will speak on Monday, 10:30 AM April 17, 2017 at Union Grove Baptist Church on Shelton Store Road, Buckingham, VA. Driven in 1978 to protect her son, her daughter and other mysteriously ill children in the neighborhood of Love Canal, Lois Gibbs...
Syria: Another Pipeline War
The fossil fuel industry's business model is to externalize its costs by clawing in obscene subsidies and tax deductions—causing grave environmental costs, including toxic pollution and global warming. Among the other unassessed prices of the world's addiction to oil...
Senators Allege DAPL Builder Didn’t Have Permit to Build Under Lake Oahe
A section of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) under construction near St. Anthony, North Dakota, in September 2016. New letter to Army Corps of Engineers makes bombshell accusations, asks for documentation on several legal fronts Rob Capriccioso • April 7, 2017 Top...
TransCanada shuts down Keystone after oil seeps to surface
Alberta-based TransCanada Corp has shut down its Keystone pipeline after crews spotted oil near a pump station in South Dakota, the company said in a statement on Monday. The company, Canada's second largest pipeline operator, said the "potential incident" was first...
She calls the process ‘frustrating’
Letter to the Editor of Farmville Herald by Chad Oba on Apr 6, 2017. Read More
‘Insist on state-of-the-art fiber’
Letter to the Editor of the Farmville Herald by Irene Ellis Leech on April 6, 2017. Read More
Beyond the backyard: Notification, accuracy, safety concerns emerge for Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Posted Friday, April 7, 2017 9:40 pm By Drew C. Wilson Times Staff Writer SIMS — Gene Autry Patterson usually reads the papers and watches the news, but he had no idea the proposed path of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline was just over a football field from his back door....
At one end of Trump’s revived Keystone XL pipeline, there’s a scene you must see to believe
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to revive and expedite two multi-billion-dollar underground pipelines that would snake oil through US states to centers of the petroleum industry. One is the contentious $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline,...
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