Buckingham’s next environmental justice fight? Maybe gold mining

October 29, 2020

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The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is dead. So what’s next for Buckingham County?

Gold, apparently.

This month, plans by a Canadian gold mining company to extract the valuable commodity from thousands of acres in Buckingham surfaced, setting off a wave of alarm in a community that fought five years to keep a natural gas pipeline from being built through their corner of Central Virginia.
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