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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!
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Pipelines & Compressor Stations
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,...
Pipeline Incident Statistics Reveal Significant Dangers
Credit: FracTracker Alliance Oil and gas pipelines in the US are lacking adequate regulation, inspection, and enforcement. As one example, our colleagues at the FracTracker analysis recently published an alarming analysis of fossil fuel pipeline incidents from...
Dominion Energy & Environmental Racism: a case study in how to lie with maps
Yes, the title is provocative, but its not entirely mine. I simply and liberally borrow from the classic Mark Monmonier primer entitled How to Lie with Maps. But the reality of this ‘case study’ is indeed provocative, and it amounts to nothing less than outright...
How will air board weigh site ‘suitability’ on major compressor station vote?
Opponents of a proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline compressor station in Buckingham County protested outside the General Assembly Building ahead of a State Air Pollution Control Board meeting. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury - Dec. 19, 2018) Is an African-American community...
Compilation of Comments to the Air Board about the air permit for the proposed Buckingham compressor station
This post is a work in process. More comments will be added when time permits. Lakshmi Fjord, PhD, Steering Committee Friends of Buckingham Lakshmi Fjord Air Permit Comm 1-4-19 Stephen Metts, The New School, NY, GIS analyst for policy issues relating to energy...
Virginia DEQ Director David Paylor Lied to the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board — and Now We Have the Smoking Gun
Lies are best told when there is no paper trail. And no Freedom of Information Act. Somebody should explain that to David Paylor, the deeply unpopular Director of Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality. And someone should tell Dr. Ralph Northam that children’s...
David Toscano: Atlantic Coast Pipeline “Behemoth” Is “Leaking Oil,” Is “No Longer Worth the Investment Needed to Keep It Going.”
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline – Living on Borrowed Time?January 2, 2019 Forgive the imagery (and the irony), but the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is increasingly looking like an old automobile in need of a valve job – it is leaking serious oil, suffers by comparison to...
Other Environmental Issues
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...
Sami people persuade Norway pension fund to divest from Dakota Access
The Sami parliament, representing indigenous people also known as Lapps, has convinced Norway’s second largest pension fund to ditch the oil pipeline project. In an act of international solidarity between indigenous peoples, the Sami parliament in Norway has persuaded...
Compressors on natural gas pipelines measured releasing high concentration plumes of gas
Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Study Proves Gas Plumes Exist from Compressor Stations on Pipelines. Characterization of methane plumes downwind of natural gas compressor stations in Pennsylvania and New York. March 11, 2017 - Narrowsburg, NY - A newly released...
Allegheny Blue Ridge Alliance Update #119, March 3, 2017
Dominion Criticized for Lack of Responsiveness to the Forest Service The Forest Service has made repeated requests for information to Dominion/ACP over the course of several teleconferences and in-person meetings; however, Dominion/ACP has not yet adequately...
Poll: Congressional Efforts to Kill Methane Pollution Rule Unpopular in AZ
PHOENIX – Efforts by the oil and gas industry to roll back an Obama-era environmental rule don't sit well with most Arizonans, according to a new poll. The energy industry wants Congress to kill a rule which reduces the amount of natural gas released or burned off at...
Virginia House of Delegates committee defangs coal ash bill
A bill that would have required Dominion Virginia Power to submit more information to state regulators before it is allowed to close what environmental groups contend are leaky, unlined ponds containing millions of tons of coal ash has cleared a House committee,...
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Briefing
A new briefing released by Oil Change International provides key information on the impacts of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. This pipeline would run over 600 miles from northwestern West Virginia, southeast through Virginia and south across eastern North Carolina....
New analysis: Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast Pipelines are Climate Disasters
Controversial pipelines pushed by Trump a risk to West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina and the planet. Two studies released today find that if built, the controversial Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines would together contribute as much greenhouse gas...
Lopez threatens to cancel dozens of mining permits
ABS-CBN News Posted at Feb 14 2017 01:53 PM | Updated as of Feb 14 2017 02:05 PM MANILA - Environment Secretary Gina Lopez said Tuesday she served notice to operators of dozens of mines, asking them to explain why their permits should not be canceled for operating in...
Environmental Justice
Proposed Pipeline Projects Could Mean Bumpy End to the McAuliffe Administration
CREDIT AP PHOTO / STEVE HELBER, FILE Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe may have only a few months left as governor, but they may end up being some of the most tumultuous of his term in office. A coalition of environmental activists is planning a three day protest in...
Pressure mounting on Virginia environmental agency to slow down pipeline water certifications
Pressure from state lawmakers in both parties, as well as from hundreds of people who showed up at a series of public hearings this month, is mounting on the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and state Water Control Board to slow or reconsider the water...
Anti-Pipeline Groups Hold Third Annual Hands Across our Land Protest
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - People who oppose the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline are calling on lawmakers to stop the pipeline from crossing the Appalachian Trail in Central Virginia. Several anti-pipeline groups participated in the third annual Hands Across our...
Pipeline can’t help but bring mayhem to Virginia’s environment
(Photo: Submitted) Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline, if allowed to be built, will be the largest disturbance of land and water in the Commonwealth of Virginia since the Interstate highways were built. Is it possible or even probable that Dominion can dig up a 600...
Hearing draws majority opposition
More than 70 people spoke during a contentious Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) public hearing in Jarman Hall at Longwood University on Thursday held to receive comments on draft water quality certifications “designed to protect water quality” along...
ESNA 2017: How storage enables SCE to avoid siting new gas plants
Southern California Edison President Ron Nichols says battery advancements are reshaping how the utility thinks about generating resources new and old. Two years ago, a San Diego Gas and Electric executive announced a bold aspiration at the Energy Storage North...
Dirty Water, Dead Geese: Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline ‘Horrifies’ Chester County Residents
Last week, the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board issued an order halting the construction of the pipeline at 55 locations across the state. Cloudy water with an oily film poured out of a hose at Scavello’s Car Care in Exton, Pennsylvania, where Jeremy Garrison...
Dhyani Simonini FERC letters: defending First People’s burial grounds
These letters were sent to FERC November 8, 2014. They are now being reposted, for ease of accessibility. Dhyani Simonini letter to FERC_Signed Dhyani attachments Letter to FERC 237 Karuna Lane Buckingham, VA 23921 November 8, 2014 Kimberly Bose, Secretary Federal...
Landowners along pipeline route sue FERC and Mountain Valley Pipeline
Participants in the lawsuit hope it will protect their private property from what they describe as “a government-sanctioned land grab” for the financial gain of a private pipeline company. A Roanoke-based lawyer representing 17 plaintiffs who own 10 properties along...
Judge shuts down all Mariner East 2 pipeline drilling across Pennsylvania
Sunoco crews work in front of the valve station for the Mariner East 2 pipeline on Boot Road in West Goshen Tuesday. A judge shut down drilling operations for the project across all of Pennsylvania with a decision issued Tuesday. PETE BANNAN – DIGITAL FIRST MEDIA A...