by Nelson Bailey | Nov 17, 2017 | Eminant Domain, Health & Safety, Politics of energy
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is preparing to sue uncooperative property owners to gain access to their land so it can build a 600-mile natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to North Carolina. The energy consortium, which includes Charlotte-based Duke Energy, said...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 17, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
The last two days saw two hearings about different Dominion Energy gas infrastructure projects in Southern Maryland. Tuesday night, there was a zoning permit for a compressor station Dominion wants to build near Accokeek, and Wednesday, there was a hearing to change...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 17, 2017 | Press Releases
Today, the U.S. Forest Service issued a final Record of Decision to amend the Forest Plans of the George Washington National Forest and the Monongahela National Forest to issue a Special Use Permit for the proposed interstate Atlantic Coast...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 16, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Politics of energy
A federal judge on Thursday tapped on the brakes — at least for now — in Mountain Valley Pipeline’s effort to fast-track one of two lawsuits against hundreds of landowners seeking to use eminent domain to gain easements for construction of its more than 300-mile...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 16, 2017 | Endangered Species, Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe won a significant victory today in its fight to protect the Tribe’s drinking water and ancestral lands from the Dakota Access pipeline. A federal judge ruled that the federal permits authorizing the pipeline to cross the Missouri River...
