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United We Stand
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....
Public Input Barred tonight by Buckingham County’s Board of Supervisors
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 line /...
Alert: March 24 Valley Link Buckingham Smoke-and-Mirrors Event
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...
Riverstone Solar Construction Town Hall, March 4th
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...
An Electric Super-Highway Through Buckingham and the Piedmont
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...
A New “Interstate of Power” Is Coming — And the Land Will Pay the Price
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...
Communities Face Mounting Harms from Mountain Valley Pipeline
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...
Appeal Cumberland County’s Green Ridge Landfill Due Aug 27c
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:...
Urgent Request to Deny Green Ridge Landfill
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,...
Celebrating Five Years Since Atlantic Coast Pipeline Cancellation
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...