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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The fight against the ACP
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Pipelines & Compressor Stations
Dominion and the Appalachian Trail: TAKE ACTION Please!!
We are told that Dominion will be trying very hard in the last weeks of this Congressional session to persuade members of Congress to ignore the pending Supreme Court process and adopt legislation to immediately permit the construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline...
Natural Gas Boom Fizzles as a U.S. Glut Sinks Profits
Chevron’s multibillion-dollar write-down of gas assets is the most recent sign that the gas supply has far outstripped demand. HOUSTON — A decade ago, natural gas was heralded as the fuel of the future. In shale fields across the country, hydraulic fracturing uncorked...
Video: North Carolinians battle the $7.5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline
View short video on Youtube A wonderful new video from independent news outlet Grist. Eastern North Carolina is home to the environmental justice movement – and also to some of the state’s biggest threats to human and environmental health, the latest being the...
FoB and CBF VS Virginia DEQ & Dominion
Chilling after a hopeful morning in court at Chesapeake Bay Foundation's [CBF] Richmond headquarters, a few doors down from the Fourth Circuit Court, Tuesday, October 29, 2019. Jon Mueller of CBF, David Neal & Greg Buppert of Southern Environmental Law Center...
Native Peoples ancient city sites along the James River would be impacted by the ACP
Letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) dated November 8, 2014, by Dhyani Simonini, includes historical information about the Native Peoples who thrived along the James River for thousands of years before the coming of the Europeans. FERC...
The United States Forest Service has been working to remove the public from their decision-making processes.
Why Is the Forest Service Trying to Evade the Public? The Trump administration is attempting to eliminate public voice from the management of national forests. We must speak up. Read the August 7, 2019, NY Times article, by Sam Evans, the national forests and parks...
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Deals Another Crushing Blow to Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has just thrown out another federal permit for Dominion Energy’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In a crushing and unanimous 50-page decision, a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit vacated the Fish and Wildlife Service Biological...
The latest U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service permit denied for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals announced today, Friday July 26, 2019, its decision to turn down the latest U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. This is a decided victory for those of us fighting this unneeded project. The...
Va. lawmakers oppose Atlantic Coast project
Construction crews work on an Atlantic Coast pipeline metering station in North Carolina. Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC A collection of 18 Virginia state lawmakers pressed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today to stop the progress of the Atlantic Coast pipeline...
2018 Friends of Buckingham Baseline Testing Project of well water, surface water, air, health – Final Report
Photo of the James River by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud 2009 Introduction We offer our findings to other beleaguered communities struggling to keep up while defending themselves against the ravages of any polluting industry. In a sane world, we would have only clean green...
Other Environmental Issues
COLUMN: What will gas pipeline do to Staunton’s water supply?
RECENTLY the federal government issued a decision to push ahead a dangerous project that would directly harm my city’s water supply. As the mayor of the city of Staunton, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s split-decision approval of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline...
Congressmen push Jeff Sessions to call environmentalists terrorists
Four Democrats join 80 Republicans on letter asking the Attorney General to treat pipeline sabotage as domestic terrorism. Environmental activists who sabotage oil and gas pipelines to protect land, water, and the climate should be treated like out-and-out terrorists,...
Police Used Private Security Aircraft for Surveillance in Standing Rock No-Fly Zone
The FAA’s no-fly zone barred indigenous drone pilots from documenting the NoDAPL struggle, but private security aircraft continued surveillance. At the height of the movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline’s construction last fall, the Federal Aviation...
Journey the James September 3-8, 2017
When Laney Sullivan first announced her plans to follow up on the 150 mile “Walking the Line into the Heart of Virginia”, with “Journey the James”, I took muted delight, as I was in recovery from Lyme’s. I had missed the Walk, not yet knowing I had Lyme’s, thinking I...
Dakota Access pipeline faces new wave of uncertainty from environmental review
The Dakota Access oil pipeline faces new uncertainty after the Army Corps of Engineers said Friday that a court-ordered environmental review won't be completed this year and will extend through next spring. "The Corps' original estimate that its review and analysis of...
West Virginia withdraws approval of Mountain Valley Pipeline
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia environmental regulators say they are rescinding approval for building the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would carry natural gas down the center of West Virginia for 195 miles. In a letter Thursday, the Department of...
Enbridge’s plans to build tar sands pipeline through Minnesota just hit a snag
Enbridge's Line 3 in Minnesota just took a serious hit. Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 project — an effort to replace and expand an oil sands pipeline through Minnesota — hit a roadblock Monday when the state’s Department of Commerce said that the project is...
Kayakers ‘Paddle Against the Pipeline’ on the James River
18 Paddle Against the Pipeline group Participant in Paddle Against Pipeline Heidi Dhivya Berthoud Malik Olson Andrew Rodriguez ASSOCIATED ARTICLE: Pressure Mounts on Officials Weighing Pipeline Projects SCOTTSVILLE, Va. (WVIR) -A group of kayakers is paddling the...
Bold Alliance Letter to Landowners
Dear Landowners, Below is information on what I’ve been working on in the Appalachia region. Please feel free to call me if you’d like to discuss further… thank you for your time, possible interest and any support you can give! Bold Alliance has been working to grow...
Residents look to township codes to block Sunoco pipeline
One of the 50 people in a town meeting hall – so crammed he had to stand – asked how many of his fellow citizens wanted to form a group to express their safety concerns and demand answers from the company that planned to plant a new natural gas liquids pipeline....
Environmental Justice
Massive gas line explosion leaves 18-foot crater in Orion Township
A ruptured gas line caused a massive explosion and fire in an area of Orion Township near the Great Lakes Crossing Outlets mall on Monday night. A ruptured gas line caused an explosion and massive fire that left an 18-foot-deep crater in an area of Orion Township near...
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...
Work stops on Atlantic Sunrise pipeline in Lancaster County, builder seeks court clarification
Construction has stopped along the Atlantic Sunrise gas pipeline's 37-mile route in Lancaster County amid a confusing stay order issued by a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. on Monday. A temporary stay was issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District...
Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines Disproportionately Target Minority and Low-Income Rural Communities, Say Tribunal Witnesses
Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines Disproportionately Target Minority and Low-Income Rural Communities, Say Tribunal Witnesses People’s Tribunal Judges Call for Immediate Suspension of Action on Pipelines Contacts Lakshmi Fjord, Friends of Buckingham: (510)...
Should Pipeline Protesters Be Treated As Domestic Terrorists?
Earlier this week a group of 84 members of Congress sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking if the department plans to pursue an investigation against protesters who sabotaged pipelines and equipment last year in an effort to block the completion of the...
Congressmen push Jeff Sessions to call environmentalists terrorists
Four Democrats join 80 Republicans on letter asking the Attorney General to treat pipeline sabotage as domestic terrorism. Environmental activists who sabotage oil and gas pipelines to protect land, water, and the climate should be treated like out-and-out terrorists,...
The Battle of Treaty Camp
One year ago today, on October 27, 2016, hundreds of law enforcement officers descended on a small resistance camp that stood directly in the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline, forcibly evicting residents and arresting 142 people — more than on any other day in the...
Anti-Pipeline Group Hosts Tribunal In Wake of Pipeline Projects’ Approval
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Saturday, Anti-pipeline group Friends of Buckingham hosted a tribunal at Charlottesville's CitySpace where more than 40 people spoke about what they see as the negative effects of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. This comes about a...