ACP Archives
The Friends of Buckingham have worked for more than seven years to protect our lands from the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Our efforts were successful!
An archive of what went into this remarkable environmental accomplishment follows.
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Pipelines & Compressor Stations
Environmental groups rally in opposition to Dominion’s expansion plans at Loudoun Compressor Station
Suzanne Szabo of 350 Loudoun joins rally in Leesburg at open house organized by Dominion at Sycolin Creek Elementary School. Times-Mirror/Sydney Kashiwagi Environmental organizations and activists rallied in Leesburg Wednesday to raise objections to...
Property Rights Revival To Be Held in Nelson County, Sunday, November 6
Friends of Nelson is hosting the first ever Property Rights Revival in Nelson County on Sunday, November 6, under a big tent outside the Rockfish Valley Community Center. The revival will feature “testimony” from property owners along the route of the Atlantic Coast...
President Obama Says Engineers Considering Rerouting Dakota Access Pipeline
President Obama today said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering rerouting the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is being built near the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's reservation in North Dakota. “We’re monitoring this closely,” Obama said in an interview with Now...
5 Things to Know About Colonial Pipeline
Briefly - WSJ A major fuel artery connecting refineries on the Gulf Coast to airports and gas stations on the East Coast was closed Monday, sending gasoline prices surging higher. Equipment being used by a work crew struck one of the lines in Shelby County, Ala.,...
Standing Rock: One million people ‘check in’ on Facebook to support Dakota pipeline protesters
| US news | The Guardian More than 1 million people have checked in on Facebook to the Standing Rock Indian reservation in response to a viral post claiming that doing so would help protect activists in North Dakota protesting against an oil pipeline from police...
Company: 1 dead, several injured in Colonial Pipeline blast
HELENA, Ala. — An explosion along the Colonial Pipeline in rural Alabama killed one worker and injured several others Monday not far from where the line burst and leaked thousands of gallons of gasoline last month, authorities said.Colonial Pipeline Co. said in...
What They Say vs What They Do
What They Say vs What They Do by Ellen Bouton A DCMediaGroup article on October 27, 2016, reports that Loudoun County lawmakers and officials "are bewildered by Dominion Resources Inc.'s latest plans to upgrade a natural gas pipeline compressor station in Loudoun...
No action taken on permit: Subcommittee created to look at station conditions
Though planners took no action on a special use permit request for Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC (ACP) to construct a proposed 53,515 horsepower natural gas fired compressor station on Route 56 between Shelton Store and Union Hill roads, the Buckingham County Planning...
FERC pipeline ‘sessions’ to harvest comments about project’s draft environmental impact statement
Posted: Monday, October 31, 2016 12:00 am By Duncan Adams duncan.adams@roanoke.com 981-3324 The “scoping meetings” in May 2015 included a few boisterous moments. That was true when a project manager for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission declared unequivocally...
Dakota Access Pipeline Shooting Victim Was An Armed Instigator, Protesters Claim
Dakota Access Pipeline Shooting Victim Was An Armed Instigator, Protesters Claim | Huffington Post A man who North Dakota authorities had said was shot by Dakota Access Pipeline protesters was actually an armed instigator linked to the pipeline company, Standing Rock...
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