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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
Permit for compressor station approved
JORDAN MILES | HERALD Pipeline opponent Annie Lou Parr gave an emotional testimony to the board of supervisors Thursday, urging them to deny the needed permit to construct the compressor station. County supervisors in Buckingham approved a special use permit for a...
Updated Air Permit Application for Compressor Station 2 (Buckingham Compressor Station)
ATLANTIC COAST PIPELINE, LLC ATLANTIC COAST PIPELINE and DOMINION TRANSMISSION, INC. SUPPLY HEADER PROJECT Supplemental Filing June 17, 2016 APPENDIX B Updated Air Permit Application for Compressor Station 2 (Buckingham Compressor Station) Read full document here: ACP...
EPA finds fault with environmental review of Mountain Valley Pipeline
The horse isn’t dead but it’s surely taking a beating. “Incomplete” and “insufficient.” A “rolling document” that challenges public review. Hazards that “have not been not fully assessed.” These and other comments filed Wednesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection...
Long-awaited draft environmental statement on Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline released
A long-awaited federal draft environmental impact statement issued Friday says Dominion’s proposed 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline would have “some adverse and significant environmental impacts,” though most would be reduced to “less-than-significant levels” with...
Public Hearing for a special use permit for a proposed Buckingham County compressor station scheduled for Thursday January 5, 6 pm
Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC [ACP] has applied for a special use permit [SUP] for a proposed 53,000 + hp compressor station in an agricultural A-1 zone in the Woods Corner/Union Hill neighborhood on Rt 56, adjacent to the Transco pipeline. The Board of Supervisors will...
Fight over ownership of Chesapeake golf course, built on coal ash, could draw in Dominion
A golf course built on 1.5 million tons of coal ash that loses $100,000 a month and is a magnet for headlines about potential environmental contamination might not seem like a property to covet. Yet for three years, a bitter legal brawl that reached the Supreme Court...
Loudoun Officials Caught Off-Guard by Dominion’s New Compressor Expansion Plans
Local lawmakers are bewildered by Dominion Resources Inc.’s latest plans to upgrade a natural gas pipeline compressor station in Loudoun County, Va., less than two years after the company promised no new compressor expansions in the area would be forthcoming. The...
Press Release: Thousands of citizens, local and conservation groups Demand FERC do an accurate review of the Mountain Valley Pipeline
Groups call on FERC to issue completely revised Draft EIS. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Over the past three months, more than 16,000 people have sent comments or signed petitions to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission demanding the agency do a thorough, accurate and...
The oil and gas industry is quickly amassing power in Trump’s Washington
After eight years of being banished and sometimes vilified by the Obama administration, the fossil fuel industry is enjoying a remarkable resurgence as its executives and lobbyists shape President-elect Donald Trump’s policy agenda and staff his administration. The...
This Proposed Pipeline Would Cut Right Through The Appalachian Trail
Environmental groups are voicing opposition to a proposed natural gas pipeline that would cut across the Appalachian Trail in Virginia and require clearing a previously protected corridor of forest. The Mountain Valley Pipeline would transport natural gas from...
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