by Nelson Bailey | Jul 6, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
Evidently, ensuring that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s 1,989 water-body crossings comply with Virginia’s water-quality standards is just too big a job for our Department of Environmental Quality, even if it is its job, so the Department of Environmental Quality handed...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 5, 2017 | Politics of energy, Press Releases
Virginia’s Director of Natural Resources has warned Dominion that state regulators will not be swayed by company requests or suggestions when deciding whether to issue permits for construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. That’s good news for pipeline opponents,...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 5, 2017 | Economic Impacts, For Landowners, Pipelines
HUNTINGDON — A Huntingdon County judge ruled this week that a family camped out on its own property has to vacate the premises to allow construction to continue for the Mariner East 2 Pipeline. Ellen Gerheart and her husband have owned the property that is now...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 5, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Is the Atlantic Coast Pipeline permit too big to deny? Maybe keeping track of the ACP’s 1,989 water body crossings by our DEQ is just too big a job, even if it is their job. The Natural Gas Act specifically preserves state authority to approve or deny a Water Quality...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 5, 2017 | Events, Pipelines
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) – Sunday, anti-pipeline hikers reached the end of the line on their two-week trek following the path of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline across the Shenandoah Valley and central Virginia. The hikers celebrated the completion of...
