by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 27, 2016 | Compressor Stations
Farmville Herald Thursday August 25, 2016 A public hearing is set for 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 26, regarding a potential 53,515 horsepower (hp) compressor station in Buckingham County — part of a 600-mile natural gas pipeline proposed by Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP)...
by Kenda Hanuman | Aug 13, 2016 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
MORTON COUNTY — A movie star on Thursday joined the largest protest yet to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from crossing the Missouri River near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Source: Movie star joins pipeline protest as 10 arrested in heavily policed...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 11, 2016 | Compressor Stations
Hello neighbors near and far! There will be 2 public hearings for air permits for the Buckingham proposed compressor station in September and October, [could be August]. The first will be with the Planning Commission [fourth Mondays – September 26], and then...
by Kenda Hanuman | Aug 10, 2016 | Events, Fossil Fuels
Join us! Bring your prayers, t-shirts, signs, hopes n dreams! Thursday, August 18, 6:30 pm Please arrive at 6 pm. Rt 56, Wingina Bridge crossing the James River, linking Nelson and Buckingham Counties. Please see the flyer for the event, link below: haol 2016(2) (1)...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 2, 2016 | Events, Fossil Fuels, Sustainability
At high Noon Sunday, with temperatures heading toward 95 degrees, I’m confident I was not the only one preparing to march through the streets of downtown Philadelphia who recalled that old elementary-school story about the wig-wearing drafters of the Declaration...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 2, 2016 | Events
Hundreds of demonstrators marched from Brown’s Island to the Executive Mansion on Saturday in protest of proposed pipeline projects and to call on Gov. Terry McAuliffe to support renewable energy. The group gathered for a rally on the James River before...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 2, 2016 | Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
When Harrison County Farm Bureau members Carol Teter and John Lovejoy bought their 160-acre farm in eastern Ohio in 2001, they were looking for a quiet place to raise a few animals and live out the second half of their lives. What the couple didn’t anticipate...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 2, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Politics of energy
Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine is facing pressure from landowners in his home state of Virginia to stand against the planned Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would carry fracked gas from Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia to mid-Atlantic...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 2, 2016 | Compressor Stations
Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC has filed a special use permit with the Buckingham County Planning and Zoning Office seeking approval to construct an over 53,000 horse powered natural gas-fired compressor station the firm says is essential to operation of its proposed...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 2, 2016 | Fossil Fuels
By Timothy Cama – 07/20/16 12:04 PM EDT From The Hill Enbridge Inc. has agreed to a $177 million settlement with the federal government to resolve charges related to a pair of oil pipeline spills in 2010 in Michigan and Illinois. The agreement includes a $62...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 11, 2016 | Environmental Justice, For Landowners
Published 3:03 pm Thursday, July 7, 2016 Farmville Herald by Jordan Miles A Buckingham County landowner says Dominion violated its own agreed-to survey process in work on the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline while the firm contents it followed the policy. Quinn...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 11, 2016 | Events
Prizes for Fundraising Raffle Drawing September 14, 2016 at FoB monthly meeting at Union Hill Baptist Church 1496 Union Hill Road Buckingham 23921 The tickets are now available: $5 per ticket, 3 for $10. More prizes pending! This list will be updated as more donors...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Bio-Solids, Sludge, Health & Safety
A 27 page report from Riverkeepers of North Carolina on the downstream contamination by the concentrated toxic chemicals in biosolids. Read the report. Haw River Assembly: Defending the river since 1982 Catawba Riverkeeper Mission Statement: We educate and...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Bio-Solids, Sludge, Health & Safety
Synagro is the private company that distributes the sludge for the wastewater treatment plants which are owned by the state. In Virginia There was a lawsuit involving Synagro’s spreading 1 million gallons of hog waste material from Smithfield’s lagoons. The lawsuit...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Bio-Solids, Sludge, Health & Safety
US EPA’s 503 sludge rule (1993) allows treated sewage sludges, aka biosolids, to be land-applied to farms, forests, parks, school playgrounds, home gardens and other private and public lands. According to a recent EPA survey, biosolids contain a wide range of...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice
Buckingham County faces the irony of being the only Virginia county already targeted for geometrically higher climate change and environmental health impacts to a front-line community from the sole 68 acre industrial complex compressor station, that is also targeted...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events
Wednesday July 13, 7 pm. Union Hill Baptist Church, 1496 Union Hill Road, (Rt. 663), Buckingham 23921. Come to join with friends and neighbors to meet and greet fellow landowners and concerned citizens. Learn how ordinary folks worked together to stop the Keystone XL...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 30, 2016 | Events, Pipelines, Video & Audio
Exciting news! Jane Kleeb, a leader in defeating the Keystone XL pipeline, and a founder of Bold Nebraska, and the Cowboy & Indian Alliance, will join us July 23rd in Richmond as we take our fight to Governor McAuliffe’s doorstep. Watch her special message...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 30, 2016 | Climate Change, Events, Fossil Fuels
On July 23, Friends of Buckingham will join more than 60 other student, faith, social justice, and environmental groups from all across Virginia to tell Governor Terry McAuliffe that we need a better plan to stop harmful carbon emissions, take away the power of big...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 30, 2016 | Climate Change, Events, Politics of energy
An open letter to Governor Terry McAuliffe and the people of the Commonwealth By March on the Mansion partners June 15, 2016 We speak today with a unified voice dedicated to energy justice, democratic renewal, and healthy communities in Virginia. We believe it’s...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 30, 2016 | Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
Gov. McAuliffe is Close to Failing on Key Energy and Climate Issues Improvement Plan: The Governor Can Bring Up His Grade Significantly with a Strong “Clean Power Plan” that Reduces Total Pollution Overall, the Governor’s two-year record on these vital energy issues...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 30, 2016 | Environmental Justice, Video & Audio
“On the morning of May 17, 2016, a crew from Dominion/Atlantic Coast Pipeline [ACP] came onto my property to survey the proposed route of the pipeline in the Andersonville area of Buckingham County. Notice of this intrusion was made by an attorney representing...
by Kenda Hanuman | May 22, 2016 | Coal, Health & Safety
Prince William County has ordered additional water tests at two houses near Dominion Virginia Power’s coal ash ponds despite a report from a county-hired contractor …“One reason we’re going out and doing more testing is because some of those test results were...
by Kenda Hanuman | May 19, 2016 | Economic Impacts, Natural Gas, Pipelines
In our region, the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline has aroused controversy. So has another proposed natural gas line through Southwestern Virginia. A new Source: Study: Mountain Valley Pipeline Will Cost Billions to Locals | WMRA
by Kenda Hanuman | May 19, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Economic Impacts, Fossil Fuels
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by Kenda Hanuman | May 19, 2016 | Pipelines, Renewables
On Wednesday, a pair of state leaders sat down with people in Albemarle County in hopes of hearing any concerns about the work they’re doing. Source: Virginia Democrats Toscano and Deeds Host Town Hall – NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and...
by Kenda Hanuman | May 19, 2016 | Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 18, 2016 | Spiritual Ecology, Sustainability
It is hard to have hope. It is harder as you grow old, for hope must not depend on feeling good and there is the dream of loneliness at absolute midnight. You also have withdrawn belief in the present reality of the future, which surely will surprise us, and hope is...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 18, 2016 | Regulatory Permit Process
Bath County Supervisors voted unanimously to file their letter of opposition to the ACP with FERC. Read more here: ABRA Press Release – Unanimous vote for pipeline opposition in Bath – 5-17-16 Lewis Freeman, Chair/Executive Director of ABRA, issued this...
by Kenda Hanuman | May 17, 2016 | FERC communications, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
“the ratepayers of the utilities that have contracted to ship gas through the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would be burdened with the costs of building” the additional pipeline, even though adequate gas can be delivered through existing pipelines....
