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.
Pipelines & Compressor Stations
The fight against the ACP
Other Environmental Issues
Climate change and more
Environmental Justice
Courts and regulatory agencies managing environmental issues
Media Center
Videos of our hearings and celebrations
Pipelines & Compressor Stations
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...
Energy audit inspires Virginia yogis to ‘stand up for something that’s important’
Yogaville leaders hope their investments in solar power send a message about opposing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Elizabeth McGowan July 8, 2019 Elizabeth McGowan / Energy News Network Jeeva Abbate, right, tells John Laury about the solar system that powers...
Amicus Briefs Filed in Support of Buckingham Suit
Friends of Buckingham, et al. v. State Air Pollution Control Board, et al., is a case pending in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit involving the potential harms facing Union Hill, an African American community in Buckingham County, from the...
Oppose Dominion’s Attempts to Legislate the Atlantic Coast Pipeline Route
Take Action! Dominion Not Allowed to Cross Appalachian Trail on U.S. Forest Service Lands In December 2018, a federal court rejected a critical permit that would allow Dominion’s controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) to cross the Appalachian Trail (AT) and...
Citing Environmental Justice Concerns, Virginia State Conference NAACP Urges Federal Appeals Court to Stop Atlantic Coast Pipeline
The Virginia State Conference NAACP once again has reaffirmed its longstanding opposition to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In a court brief filed on April 12, the state NAACP has urged a federal appeals court in Washington to revoke the key federal permit for the...
Other Environmental Issues
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....
Gas tap will cost taxpayers
By Letters to the Editor Editor: Really?! Your headline article on Aug. 18, “Gas agreement near completion,” states that “Buckingham County will contribute $260,000 as an aid in construction toward the construction of the Lateral (line).” E.M. Wright refers to this as...
‘Will DEQ do its job?’
By Letters to the Editor Editor: While the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is the primary regulator for approval of natural gas pipelines, Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is the responsible party for water protection. The Atlantic Coast...
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
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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...
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...