by Karuna | Apr 22, 2026 | Economic Impacts, Events, Health & Safety, Latest News, News
NO VALLEY LINK What is it? Dominion Energy has proposed the construction of “Joshua Falls to Yeat,” a 115-mile 765,000-volt transmission Powerline that would cut through Central Virginia from Culpeper to Campbell County. Nine counties risk being affected if it is...
by Karuna | Apr 15, 2026 | Events, News, stop valley link
Waldo & Lyle, a leading Virginia property rights law firm, is hosting a free educational community meeting to discuss the proposed Valley Link transmission line and property owners’ rights under Virginia law. The event will cover key topics, including: Your rights...
by Karuna | Apr 12, 2026 | Conservation, Events, Health & Safety, Latest News, News, stop valley link
Please attend the April 20th Board of Supervisors meeting at 6pm to show your support for blocking Valley Link from building their 765kV structure through 20 miles of BUCKINGHAM COUNTY. Valley Link is NOT following right-of-ways. This is a new green space swath that...
by Karuna | Apr 10, 2026 | Health & Safety, News, stop valley link
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY: Reminder that our county citizen meeting is scheduled tomorrow, Saturday, April 11 at 2:00pm in the Dillwyn Community Center. Your voice and strategy ideas are needed so we can collaboratively try to block Valley Link from building the monstrous...
by Karuna | Mar 27, 2026 | Health & Safety, News, Politics of energy
We’re joining with Paul McDonald and residents across nine Central Virginia counties, as we say No Valley Link! There’s power in numbers. We call on everyone who loves Virginia to jump on this bandwagon. ‘My land is valuable’: Valley Link power...
by Karuna | Mar 26, 2026 | Events, Health & Safety, News, Uncategorized
ATTN BUCKINGHAM COUNTY Here is the link to the YouTube channel for Buckingham County’s Board of Supervisors meeting tonight. They are not accepting public comments at the meeting. They are discussing a resolution related to the Joshua Falls to Yeat transmission...
by Karuna | Mar 24, 2026 | Events, Health & Safety, News
Contact: Kenda Hanuman, hanumankenda2025@gmail.com, 434-969-1586 Chad Oba, chado108@icloud.com, 434-806-6332 Friends of Buckingham (FOB) has been to Dominion’s Dog and Pony show before. Their engineers knew less than we did about their proposals and the real impacts...
by Karuna | Mar 3, 2026 | Health & Safety, Industrial Solar, News
The next Riverstone Solar town hall is tomorrow, Wednesday, March 4th, 5 pm–7pm at the Arvonia Fireman’s Building. This is the fourth quarterly meeting. Developer representatives will be present. Construction is currently on hold, and representatives have said it is...
by Karuna | Feb 26, 2026 | Climate Change, Conservation, Economic Impacts, Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety, News, Regulatory Permit Process
We in Friends of Buckingham are grateful to our friends at the Piedmont Environmental Council for allowing us to share their insights into the dire costs this will bear for all of us across the Virginia Commonwealth. Coming: $1 billion, 115-mile Transmission Line Dear...
by Karuna | Feb 22, 2026 | Conservation, Eminant Domain, News, Politics of energy
A massive new high-voltage transmission line is being planned across the heart of Central Virginia, and the scale of what’s proposed should concern every resident and landowner — especially in Buckingham County and neighboring communities. Valley Link — a joint...
by Karuna | Jan 15, 2026 | Latest News, Pipelines
One of the initiatives we all agreed to pursue after defeating the ACP was to continue supporting our friends and neighbors who are still up against the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Jessica Simms a long time advocate and essential helper to FOB has written a blog that...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 12, 2025 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 12, 2025 | Newsletter
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by Scott Flood | Oct 6, 2025 | Industrial Solar, News
Overview Community members have submitted a formal response to Riverstone Solar’s September 16, 2025 letter, documenting a pattern of violations of the project’s Special Use Permit (SUP) conditions and environmental commitments. The response calls for...
by Chad Oba | Aug 26, 2025 | News
The Friends of Buckingham regrets to inform you that our dear Ruby Laury passed away earlier today. John, her husband, just called the Past President, Chad Oba, to let her know and to pass on to you all. She will be deeply missed. Ruby was a member of our Friends of...
by Karuna | Aug 19, 2025 | Health & Safety, News
The Friends of Buckingham support CCLA as it remains strongly opposed to the Green Ridge landfill being built in Cumberland County. We are opposed due to environmental, well and groundwater contamination, property value, and traffic issues. Here is their statement:...
by Karuna | Jul 28, 2025 | Health & Safety, News, Pollution - Other Sources
Dear Cumberland County Supervisors, Friends of Buckingham strongly urges you to deny the request to construct the Green Ridge Landfill in Cumberland County. While the proposed site is within your borders, the impacts will stretch far beyond affecting the environment,...
by Karuna | Jul 5, 2025 | Latest News, News, Pipelines
On July 5, 2020, community opposition led Dominion Energy and Duke Energy to announce that they were canceling plans to build the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline. West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina residents united across state lines to put an end to this...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 16, 2025 | Newsletter
by Karuna | Jun 6, 2025 | Health & Safety, Latest News, News
The Buckingham County Comprehensive Plan is Buckingham County’s land use and development projection for the next five years has already been approved it by County Administration. It charts out the next five years of land use and economic development. Since Friends of...
by Karuna | Apr 11, 2025 | Pollution - Other Sources, Uncategorized
Jaimi McPeek – Hi everyone! Many of you know me as your local environmental scientist, but I’m also working on something much bigger—I am the Legislative Director for the VA Bottle Bill, a proposed recycling refund program. Here’s how it works: When you buy a...
by Karuna | Feb 19, 2025 | Industrial Solar
Thank you, everyone who wrote and called Senators on the Commerce and Labor Committee. HB2438 is dead on a 7-7-1 vote. McDougle, DeSteph, McPike, Obenshain, Peake, Reeves, Stanley voted no. We appreciate their protection of our rural community.
by Karuna | Feb 16, 2025 | Industrial Solar
Dear Senator Cifers, Friends of Buckingham is seeking your assistance to please STOP HB2438 (Solar facilities; local regulation, special exceptions) 1) Solar ordinance decisions should remain at the local level. Each locality has its own unique circumstances and...
by Karuna | Feb 5, 2025 | Industrial Solar
Virginia Senator Russett W. Perry The Friends of Buckingham and other concerned citizens flooded the phones of our local representatives. We succeeded in stopping SB1190, a bill proposed by Sen. Creigh Deeds, (D-Charlottesville), that would have wrestled away local...
by Karuna | Jan 29, 2025 | Industrial Solar
A bill on the Virginia House floor would dictate solar ordinance to the counties. HB 2438 seeks to create a statewide solar ordinance taking decisions away from local government. If passed, there will be no limits on the size of utility-scale solar projects or the...
by Karuna | Jan 25, 2025 | Industrial Solar
The Farmville Herald reported on HB2126. (Click to read the story. A subscription is required.) This bill gives state authorities the power to strong-arm local government into approving industrial solar projects. It restricts local decision-making on things like how...
by Karuna | Jan 24, 2025 | Industrial Solar
Two more bills are attempting to override local decisions. These bills dictate what can and can’t be in a solar ordinance. We need to STOP these bills from becoming law! It is urgent that opposition comments be sent in now! The Senate Committees on Commerce and Labor...
