by Nelson Bailey | Dec 7, 2017 | Newsletter, Politics of energy
NRDC recently commissioned an analysis from economists at the Applied Economics Clinic at Tufts University to dig into the repeated claim by project proponents that new interstate natural gas pipelines like the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) or Mountain Valley Pipeline...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 7, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Politics of energy
NACHUSA, Ill. (AP) — Authorities in northern Illinois say a father and son were killed in a natural gas pipeline explosion while working on a farm field. Officials on Wednesday said 59-year-old father Rory Miller of Amboy and 30-year-old son Ryan Miller of Oregon died...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 7, 2017 | Endangered Species, Health & Safety, Pipelines
You know how Gov. Terry McAuliffe has spent the past four years running around Virginia, repeating Dominion’s (laughable, false) talking points about how the Atlantic Coast Pipeline will be a “game changer” that will supposedly “spur economic growth in all parts of...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 5, 2017 | Conservation, Health & Safety
12/05/2017 Release from Friends of Nelson: Some 20 households in Horizons Village near Nellysford in Nelson County, Virginia, will be testing their groundwater quality to gather baseline data suitable for legal action if and when the construction of the Atlantic Coast...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 4, 2017 | Events
Video: https://www.facebook.com/waterislifeprotectit/videos/1959036550789424/ Today, in Richmond, Virginia, the “Water is life. Protect it. Coalition” made history when together they surrounded the entire Capitol Grounds with over 600 citizens all crying out to...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 4, 2017 | Environmental Justice, PEIS, Regulatory Permit Process
In May 2015, Rover purchased a house in Carroll County, OH, located near where the pipeline, and a compressor station for that pipeline, is due to run. Rover bought the house to use for offices for several Rover affiliate companies. After buying it, Rover determined...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 4, 2017 | Events
Buckingham, VA farmer and member of Friends of Buckingham. More Photos by Cori Johnson Posted by Cori Johnson on Saturday, December 2, 2017 Posted by: Nelson...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 3, 2017 | Events
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 3, 2017 | Events
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by Nelson Bailey | Dec 3, 2017 | Events
Protesters who oppose the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines walked around Capitol Square in Richmond on Saturday. The State Water Control Board is set to begin hearings on the pipelines this week. A rally opposing the construction of two major natural gas...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 1, 2017 | Politics of energy
RICHMOND — Dominion Energy was taking no chances with the fate of its proposed natural gas pipeline during this year’s election season, even though both major candidates for governor supported the $5 billion project. The state’s most powerful corporation, along...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 30, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Nov 28, 2017 | Endangered Species, Fossil Fuels, Regulatory Permit Process
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline would each cross hundreds of private properties. Many of these private properties are farms, and farmers are rightfully concerned about damage to their farmland from pipeline construction, as well as ongoing...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 28, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
As I look back over the past decade of my life, ever since the fossil fuel industry set its sights on PA’s Marcellus Shale, several memories stand in sharp relief against the blurred background of 1,000 remembered conversations, hearings, presentations, testimonies,...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 28, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
The expansion of natural gas infrastructure along the East Coast has created a seemingly endless queue of new pipeline battles involving landowners, environmentalists, states and the federal government. Some of the proposed pipelines have similar names. A handful have...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 28, 2017 | Politics of energy, Spiritual Ecology
In April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested as part of the Birmingham Campaign, an effort to bring national attention to systemic racism in one of America’s most segregated cities. As he sat in a jail cell, King wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail,...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 27, 2017 | Accidents, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
(Reuters) – TransCanada Corp’s (TRP.TO) existing Keystone pipeline has leaked substantially more oil, and more often, in the United States than indicated in risk assessments the company provided to regulators before the project began operating in 2010, according...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 26, 2017 | Conservation, Health & Safety, Politics of energy
In “Atlantic Coast Pipeline Builder set to seize property” (Nov. 17), it says “the Atlantic Coast Pipeline has undisputed legal authority to use private land for the project,” giving the impression that because eminent domain is being used this project is necessary...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 22, 2017 | Accidents, Environmental Justice, Pipelines
A ruptured gas line caused a massive explosion and fire in an area of Orion Township near the Great Lakes Crossing Outlets mall on Monday night. A ruptured gas line caused an explosion and massive fire that left an 18-foot-deep crater in an area of Orion Township near...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 22, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Sierra Club is asking the Supreme Court of Virginia to require the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to review a key deal for shipping capacity on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The SCC has thus far declined to exercise its oversight authority over this arrangement,...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 22, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Nov 22, 2017 | Endangered Species, Pipelines
State law enforcement officials told legislators Thursday that they’re expecting “outside agitators” to come to North Carolina in the coming months to protest the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The comments came during a presentation about the N.C....
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 21, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
Friends of Wintergreen announced today that nearly 1,000 Wintergreen property owners plan to individually sue the Atlantic Coast Pipeline for damages to their property if the pipeline company seizes land used by the Wintergreen community. These actions follow a rare...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 20, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines, Politics of energy
BUCKHANNON – Construction on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project is expected to begin on April 1, 2018, and that is not an April Fool’s joke. Mike Cozad, a third-party contractor for ACP, came to the Upshur County Commission’s weekly meeting Thursday to provide...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 17, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Spiritual Ecology
Read more: The Farmville Herald – 11.16.2017 Posted by: Nelson Bailey
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 17, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
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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...
