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Pipelines & Compressor Stations
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...
Action needed NOW! Speak up for strong climate legislation
The climate crisis is at our doorstep, so why is Governor Northam pushing bad industry-friendly climate policy? His Clean Economy Act is riddled with industry handouts and loopholes that allow continued dependency on fossil fuels. Don’t let Virginia make a huge...
Tell Legislators to vote NO on bills limiting the SCC’s ability to regulate Dominion
Several bills have crossed over in the Virginia legislature that would hinder the State Corporation Commission's (SCC) ability to rule whether or not clean energy projects would be in the ratepayers' interest. By mandating that it is in the "public interest" if...
Health Care in the Time of Climate Crisis: An Earth Ethics Perspective – Karenna Gore at the 2nd Annual Clinical Climate Change Conference
The Center for Earth Ethics joined the Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research to convene the Institute’s 2nd Annual Clinical Climate Change Conference. Additional partners included the American Lung Association and the American Public Health Association. CEE...
Opinion ‘Environmental Justice Is Not Merely a Box to Be Checked’
When concerns about a pipeline were dismissed by regulators, a rural black enclave went to court — and won. New York Times Opinion Jan. 23, 2020 By Jeff Gleason, the executive director of the Southern Environmental Law Center. How we treat the story and future of...
Fourth Circuit Vacates ACP Buckingham Compressor Station Air Permit
On January 7, 2020, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the air permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline's Buckingham compressor station located in Virginia’s historic, predominantly African-American Union Hill community. The air permit was granted last January...
Bipartisan bill in Va. chips away at Dominion’s excess profits
RICHMOND — Two state lawmakers unveiled a bipartisan effort on Thursday to reclaim the state's authority to set electric rates, a sign that the incoming Democratic-controlled legislature may take on Virginia's biggest utility, Dominion Energy. Dels. Lee Ware...
Other Environmental Issues
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...
Pipelines Ruin Farmland Across the Country
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline would each cross hundreds of private properties. Many of these private properties are farms, and farmers are rightfully concerned about damage to their farmland from pipeline construction, as well as ongoing...
Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Environmental Racism, and the Appalling Silence of the Good People
In April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested as part of the Birmingham Campaign, an effort to bring national attention to systemic racism in one of America’s most segregated cities. As he sat in a jail cell, King wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail,...
Opposition to Atlantic Coast Pipeline grows with plans to seize land
In “Atlantic Coast Pipeline Builder set to seize property” (Nov. 17), it says “the Atlantic Coast Pipeline has undisputed legal authority to use private land for the project,” giving the impression that because eminent domain is being used this project is necessary...
‘Outside agitators’ expected in North Carolina to protest pipeline
State law enforcement officials told legislators Thursday that they're expecting "outside agitators" to come to North Carolina in the coming months to protest the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The comments came during a presentation about the N.C. Information Sharing and...
How will the state protect the communities?
Read more: The Farmville Herald - 11.16.2017 Posted by: Nelson Bailey
In Victory for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Court Finds That Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe won a significant victory today in its fight to protect the Tribe’s drinking water and ancestral lands from the Dakota Access pipeline. A federal judge ruled that the federal permits authorizing the pipeline to cross the Missouri River...
Environmentalists just gained a new enemy in the fight against natural gas pipelines
Industry is intensifying its campaign against landowners and environmentalists. The electric utility sector’s top lobbying group is teaming up with fossil fuel trade associations as part of an effort to intensify the industry’s campaign against citizen and...
McAuliffe’s Folly: The Atlantic ‘Trump’ Pipeline
Is outgoing Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe a climate change denier? Just asking that question is bound to offend the governor and some of his supporters. After all, they would say, Governor McAuliffe has “expanded efforts to reduce emissions” and recently issued a...
Environmental Justice
Pipeline Politics: The Appalling Silence of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam
It has been said that where you stand often depends on where you sit. Such is the case with the term “old plantation.” People who want to distort the cruel history of slavery in America use the term “old plantation” to conjure false and comforting (to some) memories...
“Finally, its Final!”: Governor Northam’s Advisory Council Calls for Moratorium on Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines
The following press release is from the Global Justice Ecology Project, following today’s vote by Gov. Northam’s Advisory Council on Environmental Justice (ACEJ) to make its letter, calling for a moratorium on further construction of the fracked-gas Atlantic Coast...
The Baptists and the yogis join to fight a pipeline
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. — Pastor Paul was nursing a sore throat, but as he preached on a sleepy Sunday morning in his little country church, he felt a rising sense of urgency. “Turning points!” the Rev. Paul Wilson shouted. Like the biblical Paul on the road to...
VA Governor Northam Dismisses Letter from His Environmental Justice Advisory Council Calling to Stay Pipeline Permits
Virginia- In response to a letter from his own advisory committee calling for a halt to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline due in part to its disproportional impact on poor and minority communities, the assistant for Governor Northam’s press secretary, Marissa Astor, told...
BREAKING: Virginia State NAACP Calls for Halt to All Construction Activities on Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast Pipelines
by Jon Sokolow In a powerful statement published by Blue Virginia here for the first time, the Virginia State Chapter of the NAACP has called on the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality to halt all construction activity for both the Mountain Valley and...
MORATORIUM ON NEW GAS INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDED IN DRAFT STATEMENT FROM ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Press Release to Farmville Herald For immediate release: June 4, 2018 Contact: Heidi Dhivya Berthoud 434-979-9732 friendsofbuckinghamcountyva@gmail.com http://www.friendsofbuckinghamva.org/ Friends of Buckingham co-sponsored a tour of the Union Hill proposed...
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...
Atlantic Coast Pipeline blows another deadline as NC officials seek more info
The proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline, already more than a year behind schedule, missed another deadline Wednesday when North Carolina regulators said they would not issue an environmental permit by Dec. 15 as had been expected. The N.C. Department of Environmental...
FERC Says Emails Prove Rover Lied About Demolishing This Old House
In May 2015, Rover purchased a house in Carroll County, OH, located near where the pipeline, and a compressor station for that pipeline, is due to run. Rover bought the house to use for offices for several Rover affiliate companies. After buying it, Rover determined...