by Nelson Bailey | Jan 25, 2018 | Health & Safety, Pollution - Other Sources
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is not a “done deal” and the zoning variance Dominion Energy and its partners seek and that would destroy the hard work and dreams of the Ryan Blosser family is not a “done deal” either. The ACP, if built, will...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 22, 2018 | Health & Safety, Natural Gas
Five people were missing Monday after an explosion at an Oklahoma drilling rig sent plumes of black smoke into the sky, emergency officials said. The drilling rig in Quinton, about 100 miles southeast of Tulsa, exploded just before 9 a.m. while about two dozen people...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 21, 2018 | Newsletter
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 21, 2018 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
Duke Energy and other advocates for building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline have come up with a peculiar new justification for the $5 billion project – climate change. They say this winter’s record-setting run of sub-freezing temperatures led to a spike in natural gas...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 18, 2018 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Jan 18, 2018 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
The Rover pipeline, owned and operated by Energy Transfer Partners, has spilled 150,000 gallons of drilling fluid into wetlands near the Tuscarawas River in Stark County, Ohio. Last April, the pipeline spilled 2 million gallons in the same area. The pipeline, which...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 17, 2018 | For Landowners, Pipelines
The Mariner East 2 pipeline project can produce a visceral reaction from people in the community — often those concerned about safety and quality of life as evidenced in vocal displays of opposition at municipal meetings and elsewhere. There’s also a contingent who...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 14, 2018 | For Landowners, Pipelines
ALBANY — The Constitution Pipeline project is once again on hold after its petition was denied Thursday by the Federal Energy Regulation Commission. After being denied permits at the state level last year, the Constitution Pipeline had attempted to have...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 14, 2018 | Eminant Domain, Pipelines
Local landowners ask the public to come to court to support cause ROANOKE – Federal court hearings were postponed Friday until a decision could be reached surrounding the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Court hearings continued Saturday at 9 a.m. in Roanoke at the...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 14, 2018 | Eminant Domain, Pipelines
Even as it asks a federal judge to allow it to run a natural gas pipeline through land it does not own, Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC is considering changes to the pipeline’s route. In October, the company invoked its power of eminent domain to seek easements on nearly...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 12, 2018 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
Banks that pulled funding from the Dakota Access Pipeline due to strong public opposition are now teaming up with the pipeline’s developer on another controversial fossil fuel project. Energy Transfer Partners, the lead developer of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 12, 2018 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Jan 10, 2018 | Events
While attending the State Water Control Board hearing on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline on Dec. 11, I listened to Del. Roxann Robinson, R-Chesterfield, and former state Sen. John Watkins give misguided praise to the project, citing vague claims of benefits it would bring...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 10, 2018 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Jan. 8 (UPI) — Claims by Nebraska landowners for compensation from pipeline company TransCanada on Keystone XL-related costs rests with the state’s highest court, advocates say. Bold Nebraska, an organization that’s steered a multi-year campaign...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 10, 2018 | For Landowners, Pipelines
As construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline draws closer, a coalition of environmental groups is asking a federal appeals court to issue a stay that would stop the project in its tracks. Filed late Monday, the motion argues that a court-ordered delay is needed to...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 10, 2018 | Accidents, Pipelines
Representatives from Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, traveled to Cambridge, Iowa, in October to present a series of $20,000 checks to emergency management departments in six counties. The money was, in part, an...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 7, 2018 | Economic Impacts, Pollution - Other Sources
Ryan and Joy Blosser and their two children are at risk of being robbed of their livelihood and their domestic tranquility at the point of a pen. I do not know the Blossers personally, but I was moved by their presentation at the Augusta County Board of Zoning Appeals...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 6, 2018 | Regulatory Permit Process
FERC’s faulty data there for all to see Highland County reassessment office records show a very large drop in land values within a half mile of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. I’m sure that virtually all properties on or near the proposed pipeline have lost...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 5, 2018 | Eminant Domain, Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
VERONA – The Augusta County Board of Zoning Appeals voted to delay making a decision Thursday on whether to issue the Atlantic Coast Pipeline a special use permit for a storage yard in Churchville. The proposal is to convert 34 acres of existing farmland on...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 4, 2018 | Newsletter
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by Nelson Bailey | Jan 4, 2018 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
A decision on whether to approve a contentious oil pipeline in northern Minnesota is being delayed so the project’s environmental impact statement can be revised, an administrative law judge has ruled. The decision from Judge Ann O’Reilly last week is a response to a...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 4, 2018 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
An Augusta County board is reviewing a proposal by Dominion Energy to build a construction yard for its Atlantic Coast Pipeline on 34 acres of farmland near Churchville. Pipeline opponents are rallying against the proposed site. The energy company needs to get a...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 3, 2018 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
Segments of assembled pipe are lined up along a cleared section of woods where a pipeline for shale gas is under construction on July 8, 2017 in Jackson Township, Butler County, Pa (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Pennsylvania environmental officials have ordered Sunoco to...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 3, 2018 | Fossil Fuels, Fracking
Equitrans pipeline connectors as bold red lines FERC staff wants more data on Equitrans project connected to Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) From a News Report of Sean Sullivan, SNL Daily Gas Report, SNL Financial LC, December 29, 2017 Staff at the Federal Energy...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 3, 2018 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
You may recall that, last November, our old friend the Keystone XL pipeline, the continent-spanning death funnel and longtime conservative fetish object, sprang a particularly ill-timed leak, drowning a field on the border between the two Dakotas with 210,000 gallons...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 2, 2018 | Newsletter
What did the SWCB do? Rick Webb; Petition to Northam: Do the science! Petition Marine Resource Commission; Augusta & Cumberland storage yard permit hearings: Jan 4, 1:30 pm and Jan 8, 6:30 pm; “Waking up White” Book Study starts Jan 3, 6 pm; Film:...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 2, 2018 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
My blood is boiling after reading “Bad vibrations” in the Dec. 19 issue. The article details the noise problems for some residents of Manor Township caused by nonstop drilling under the Conestoga River for the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline. The Federal Energy Regulatory...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 2, 2018 | Accidents, Fracking, Politics of energy
ShareGoogle+Email A contractor for natural gas pipeline company Kinder Morgan improperly dumped thousands of gallons in Agawam, Massachusetts. MASSLIVE / MASSLIVE.COM Originally published on December 30, 2017 4:47 pm A contractor for a natural gas pipeline company...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 2, 2018 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Politics of energy
WEST CHESTER >> Calling the impacts of Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 pipeline drilling “unacceptable,” state Sen. Andy Dinniman, D-19, and state Sen. John Rafferty, R-44, called on Gov. Tom Wolf to suspend the project until constituents’ concerns are resolved. “In my...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 29, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
RICHMOND — Residents who live near a natural gas pipeline thought something catastrophic was happening. “The noise sounded like a thousand jets flying overhead, and the smell of gas around my house was overwhelming,” said Susan Lockwood. “One close...
