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
Worldwide ban on fracking recommended by The Peoples’ Permanent Tribunal
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal has just released its Advisory Opinion, recommending a worldwide ban on hydraulic fracturing, the extreme oil and gas extraction technique known as ‘fracking.’ The materials, and infrastructure of fracking inherently and necessarily...
Extensive Media Coverage of: A Moral Call For Ecological Justice in Buckingham Tuesday 2-19-2019
Friends of Buckingham extends a warm and grateful thank you to Reverend Barber, Al Gore and Karenna Gore for accepting our ernest and urgent invitation to come to Union HIll, to draw and amplify ever widening attention to the injustices forced on the Union Hill...
Path to Racial Equity in VA Includes Environmental Justice
Black History Month is a time of remembrance – to remember and celebrate African American achievements and culture, but also to remember those parts of our nation’s history that we sometimes might like to forget. “Those who cannot remember the past,” as George...
Union Hill visit by Gore, Barber seeks to put Northam on spot
Gov. Ralph Northam can’t escape the spotlight as former Vice President Al Gore and the Rev. William J. Barber II bring a racial and environmental crusade Tuesday to a little community in Buckingham County with a big natural gas pipeline planned at its doorstep....
SELC Challenges Virginia Air Board Decision
In a press release on February 8, 2019, the Southern Environmental Law Center announced their challenge of the Air Pollution Control Board on behalf of the Union Hill Community. The press release states: Today the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of its...
Document reveals effort to remove opposition of Native American tribes to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Members of the Lumbee tribe and other opponents of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline marched through Pembroke in Robeson County in late 2016. The ACP would traverse through Native American lands along its route, including in Robeson County. (File photo: Lisa Sorg) [Editor’s...
Breathing while black: A Dominion compressor station would disadvantage a historically black community in Virginia
A protester is removed from the Jan. 8 meeting of the Virginia State Air Pollution Control Board. (Steve Helber/Associated Press) By Vivian E. Thomson January 25 at 4:06 PM Vivian E. Thomson, a retired professor of environmental policy at the University of Virginia,...
Former state board member was accused of ‘working for the opposition’ after raising concerns about pipeline construction damage
A portion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline construction site in Franklin County. (Roberta Kellam) Visiting the Mountain Valley Pipeline construction corridor in southwest Virginia was a promise I made to local residents while I was a member of the State Water Control...
Virginia Air Board Member Who Approved a Controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline Permit Has Links to a Dominion Gas Partner
A member of a Virginia state permitting board who last week approved a highly controversial certification for Dominion's planned Atlantic Coast pipeline has business ties to a company currently collaborating with Dominion on a related gas project, DeSmog has found....
Gazette editorial: Who are the real rogues?
A lobbyist for the natural gas industry told West Virginia legislators Tuesday that progress on a pipeline that stretches through the Mountain State was slowed because of “rogue environmental groups” challenging the project in the federal court system. In reality,...
Other Environmental Issues
More water violations found on Rover Pipeline construction sites
Just weeks after ordering a temporary halt to construction of part of the Rover Pipeline in Doddridge County, West Virginia inspectors discovered more water pollution violations at Rover construction operations in two other counties, according to records obtained...
Source of drinking water for 13.9 million people
Virginia River Healers No Pipelines Video - 06/30/2017 See more
Reynolds: New info should prompt McAuliffe to rescind pipeline support
Reynolds is retired from a global engineering and technology company. He lives in Roanoke. Will “The Virginia Way,” that shameless, slippery, insider relationship between Gov. Terry McAuliffe, his administration, a host of our General Assembly members, and several...
Greens take climate fight to GOP town halls
Activists are using the in-person events in lawmakers' home districts during the Easter recess to push Republicans to fight global warming and resist President Trump’s environmental rollbacks. It’s part of a nationwide effort, organized in part by left-wing groups, to...
The King Philosophy
The King Philosophy Triple Evils Six Principles Of Nonviolence Six Steps of Nonviolent Social Change The Beloved Community Read More
Mobility and persistence of methane in groundwater in a controlled-release field experiment
Aaron G. Cahill1,2, Colby M. Steelman1 , Olenka Forde2 , Olukayode Kuloyo3 , S. Emil Ru3 , Bernhard Mayer3 , K. Ulrich Mayer2 , Marc Strous3 , M. Cathryn Ryan3 , John A. Cherry1 and Beth L. Parker1 * Expansion of shale gas extraction has fuelled global concern about...
Underwater pipeline has been leaking gas into a beluga whale habitat for 3 months
Alaska’s Cook Inlet has long been known for its stunning mountain views and the endangered beluga whales that inhabit the watershed. But a series of oil and gas leaks from underwater pipelines, one of which is still ongoing, has residents and environmentalists...
She calls the process ‘frustrating’
Letter to the Editor of Farmville Herald by Chad Oba on Apr 6, 2017. Read More
Ten Government-Industry Myths about Biosolids, aka Sludge
This well researched paper by Caroline Snyder, PhD answers many questions. Please click here for the document: Biosolids- 10 Myths
Lorne Stockman: FERC Alternative Climate Facts Exposed
Feb. 20, 2017 – Long before Trump spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway took the phrase ‘alternative facts’ mainstream, a rogue federal agency with authority to ram giant gas pipelines through people’s property against their will has for years pioneered the Trumpian version of...
Environmental Justice
Norway wealth fund watchdog reviewing investment in U.S. pipeline firm
OSLO (Reuters) - The ethics watchdog for Norway's $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund is reviewing allegations that U.S. pipeline operator Energy Transfer Partners may breach the fund's investment guidelines. The Norwegian fund held $248 million of ETP corporate bonds...
Feds push back deadline for new Dakota Access review
Federal lawyers said Friday that the government’s court-ordered environmental review of the Dakota Access pipeline will be complete by next spring, not this year, as previously expected. In a court filing, the Army Corps of Engineers said it was pushing back its...
Kinder Morgan goes rogue, proving it can’t be trusted
After swimming 1,300 kilometres upstream to their spawning grounds near the headwaters of the Fraser River, Chinook salmon returning to Swift Creek this year found their gravel beds blocked by a bright orange layer of snow fencing. Kinder Morgan, the pipeline company...
Major Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Cancelled, Dealing Blow to Canada’s Export Hopes
Since oil prices collapsed, ‘the economics have just turned against it entirely,’ one economist said. The long-term future of Canada's tar sands suffered a blow Thursday when TransCanada announced it would cancel a major pipeline project. The decision on the line,...
People Power Defeats an Oil Pipeline in Canada
AARON MATÉ: It's The Real News. I'm Aaron Maté. Activists in Canada are celebrating what is being called a victory for people over pipelines. The energy company TransCanada has announced it is canceling the proposed Energy East pipeline that would've moved crude oil...
Dirty Energy Dominance: Dependent on Denial – How the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry Depends on Subsidies and Climate Denial
Dirty Energy Dominance: Dependent on Denial – How the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry Depends on Subsidies and Climate Denial Oil Change International October 2017 Download the full report. A new report by Oil Change International reveals that U.S. taxpayers continue to...
The People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Environmental Justice; Impacts of Fracked Gas Infrastructure
In the painful aftermath of the recent racist violence in Charlottesville, we seek to draw a straight line between these white supremacist attacks and the slow violence of unequally borne environmental devastation. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and the Mountain...
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...
To Understand Pipeline Economics, Follow the Money
To Understand Pipeline Economics, Follow the Money by TomH I have worked for electric and gas utilities in other states, so I am interested in seeing a modern energy system developed in Virginia. I prefer to find solutions where everyone wins, but Virginia is...
‘We, in turn, deserve some respect’
By Letters to the Editor Published 3:47 pm Thursday, August 24, 2017 Editor: I too agree that respectful responses are always best. I also think that when someone is telling such an outrageous, egregious lie as the speaker was that it is difficult to let it go. I do...