by Karuna | Jul 5, 2025 | Latest News, News, Pipelines
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...
by Karuna | Jun 6, 2025 | Health & Safety, Latest News, News
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...
by Karuna | Apr 11, 2025 | Pollution - Other Sources, Uncategorized
Jaimi McPeek – Hi everyone! Many of you know me as your local environmental scientist, but I’m also working on something much bigger—I am the Legislative Director for the VA Bottle Bill, a proposed recycling refund program. Here’s how it works: When you buy a...
by Karuna | Feb 19, 2025 | Industrial Solar
Thank you, everyone who wrote and called Senators on the Commerce and Labor Committee. HB2438 is dead on a 7-7-1 vote. McDougle, DeSteph, McPike, Obenshain, Peake, Reeves, Stanley voted no. We appreciate their protection of our rural community.
by Karuna | Feb 16, 2025 | Industrial Solar
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...
