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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
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...
Two reports: Fjord Union Hill Community Household Study & Dominion’s Community Engagement
This is what Environmental inJustice looks like. Read both reports. Lakshmi Fjord, PhD lays out the history of attack, omissions, falsifications surrounding the siting of the proposed ACP Buckingham compressor station [BCS] by local, state, federal agencies and...
As court challenges pile up, gas pipeline falls behind
Richard Walker, an Atlantic Coast Pipeline opponent, raises his hands as he and other pipeline opponents turn their backs on a Dec. 19 meeting of a Virginia air pollution panel, which delayed a vote on a key permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. (Steve Helber/AP)...
United States Supreme Court deciding whether or not to hear Mountain Valley Pipeline lawsuit The case deals with eminent domain and the Natural Gas Act of 1938
ROANOKE, Va - A lawsuit involving the Mountain Valley Pipeline may be headed to our nation's highest court. Wednesday, Virginia landowners filed a reply arguing their case does have merit to be heard after non-decisions by lower courts. They want to challenge the...
Come eat cake with us (again)! Protect our clean air from harm letter writing party
Dominion and DEQ have introduced new material to be considered in the Air Permit decision process. Consequently, DEQ has opened another Public Comment period for us to review and respond to the new material by Jan 4, 2019. AIR POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD (APCB) PUBLIC...
Other Environmental Issues
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...
New data undermine oil and gas industry’s pipeline safety claims
By Sue Sturgis Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) — In the debate over construction of new oil and gas pipelines, industry representatives have long argued that pipelines are safer than other methods for moving fossil fuels over long distances. Take for...
Fight Against Ore. Pipeline Has Ties to Youth Climate-Change Case
February 14. 2017 Youth plaintiffs in a federal case are alleging the federal government knew about the drastic effects of climate change, but did not do enough to slow its effects. (Robin Loznak/ZUMAPRESS.com) EUGENE, Ore. – A team of teenagers and young adults is...
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...