by Nelson Bailey | Jun 28, 2017 | Press Releases
Friends of Buckingham has been working for 2½ years to fight the only Virginia compressor station planned for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). For the past year, we have been working closely with PSR in highly productive collaborations. The compressor station has...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 28, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline. AFTER MONTHS OF employing military-style counterinsurgency tactics to subvert opposition to the...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 28, 2017 | Eminant Domain, Natural Gas
Mountaineer Gas will be in the Morgan County Courthouse in Berkeley Springs this Friday June 30 at 9 am in an effort to forcibly take parts of the Kesecker family farm by eminent domain for a controversial gas pipeline. Christopher Robertson Jackson Kelly The proposed...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 28, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Workers have removed an estimated 1,700 gallons of oil which spilled from a pipe in Convis Township. Workers from Omimex Energy in Ludington, which owns the well, and several subcontractors have been working 12-hours each day since a leak was discovered June 12 in a...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 28, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Jobs, land, environmental and public health all considerations for project CENTREVILLE, Va. – The proposed WB XPress Pipeline Project would impact West Virginia and Virginia, but two miles of new pipeline would be constructed in Western Fairfax County park land,...