Buckingham County Comprehensive Plan

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...

Opposition to HB2438

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...

SB1190 Successfully Defeated

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...

Stop 2 Bills from Overriding Local Authority

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...

Huge Climate Win for Virginians

The Circuit court rules in favor of rejoining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Today, a circuit court judge confirmed that the decision to pull Virginia out of a successful climate program known as RGGI, or the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, was unlawful. ...

Growing Solar, Protecting Nature

The where and how of the solar projects placement is critical. When forests and agricultural lands are lost, the valuable services they provide like clean air, clean water, flood protection, and carbon capture also go missing. Harvard Forest and Mass Audubon present a...

A Church, an Ashram, and a Pipeline

We are delighted by this podcast and invite you to listen and to share it widely. Originally published on https://religionlab.virginia.edu/podcast/a-church-an-ashram-and-a-pipeline/. Used with permission.   Transcript   In 2014, Virginia’s Dominion Energy...

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