by Nelson Bailey | Oct 11, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events, Pipelines
A 63-year-old Buckingham County pastor and found- ing member of a group opposed to a 600-mile natural gas pipeline was arrested and charged with trespass- ing last week after protesting the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline and compressor station. Paul Wilson, pastor...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 2, 2016 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Eighty-three-year-old Hazel Palmer could become the Suzette Kelo of Virginia — the face of a property-rights revolution. She has a piece of land in Augusta County along the proposed route of the 600-mile, $5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline. It has been in her...
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 | 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 | 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...