The mission of the Friends of Buckingham is to protect the natural environment and cultural heritage of Buckingham County.
We now face a major threat to Buckingham and the entire state of Virginia. A Canadian exploration company found gold in Buckingham. Here’s what that could mean for this community:
- An open-pit mine hundreds of acres wide and hundreds of feet deep, pulling water from our well sources
- Massive cyanide waste lagoons
- Contaminated drinking water, streams, rivers, and lakes
- Taxpayers left paying millions for an unsalvageable toxic waste site.
We have a fundamental right to clean water, air, and land. A gold mine would violate those rights.
Read more about the fight to ban gold-mining, learn what actions you can take.
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Farmville Herald: County can avoid gold mining, officials say!!!
Wow! Buckingham Board of Supervisors can do the right thing and protect the county from industrial gold mining! #Ourpointexactly So sayeth Joe Lerch, the director of local government policy for the Virginia Association of Counties at the meeting of the State Agency...
Newsletter #149: Buckingham supervisor meeting tonight; State comment writing party 9/13
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Updates on the local campaign to adopt a Freedom from Toxic trespass Community Bill of Rights
We continue to insist the Buckingham supervisors adopt the rights-based freedom from toxic trespass ordinance now! Don't rely on the state to ban new gold mining! Check out all the links below. Inform yourself and speak up to protect our water, air, land, our...
Newsletter #148: Catch the gold fever community rights and state news; #StopMVP in DC 9/8
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Who monitors Virginia gold mining? Its not always the state
How do you effectively monitor a Virginia gold mining operation without necessary resources or staff? A question awaiting an answer in Buckingham and other localities. This problem is... part of the regulation and enforcement falls to local governments... without the...
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