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...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 16, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Nov 16, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Roughly 5,000 barrels of oil, or about 210,000 gallons, spilled from the Keystone pipeline on Thursday in South Dakota, sending cleanup crews and emergency workers to the remote northeast portion of the state. The spill, near Amherst, S.D., comes just days before...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 16, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Nov 16, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines, Politics of energy
In an effort to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Friends of Nelson filed a request for rehearing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday on the commission’s recent decision to issue a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity for the natural gas...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 16, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
The private security firm TigerSwan worked to build a RICO suit accusing Greenpeace, Earth First, and BankTrack of inciting protests to increase donations. The private security firm TigerSwan, hired by Energy Transfer Partners to protect the controversial Dakota...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 14, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
NORFOLK, VA. The Norfolk City Council is set to decide whether to grant easements for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross two drinking water reservoirs, the only ones in its path. The Virginian-Pilot reports the council will consider the issue Tuesday. Senior city...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 13, 2017 | Natural Gas, Politics of energy
Charges that the U.S. pipeline industry is building far more natural gas pipelines than it needs are being fueled by a new report showing that the capacity of lines approved by federal regulators over the last two decades was more than twice the amount of gas actually...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 13, 2017 | Endangered Species, Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
Industry is intensifying its campaign against landowners and environmentalists. The electric utility sector’s top lobbying group is teaming up with fossil fuel trade associations as part of an effort to intensify the industry’s campaign against citizen and...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 13, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety, Spiritual Ecology, Uncategorized
Is outgoing Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe a climate change denier? Just asking that question is bound to offend the governor and some of his supporters. After all, they would say, Governor McAuliffe has “expanded efforts to reduce emissions” and recently issued a...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 12, 2017 | Natural Gas, Pipelines
Hampton Roads residents need to wake up to the specter of Dominion Energy’s plans for building the 600-mile-long Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The Norfolk City Council will vote Tuesday on a bid by ACP LLC to buy an easement that will allow the company to build a...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 11, 2017 | Endangered Species, Health & Safety
RECENTLY the federal government issued a decision to push ahead a dangerous project that would directly harm my city’s water supply. As the mayor of the city of Staunton, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s split-decision approval of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 9, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Nov 7, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Regulatory Permit Process
Construction has stopped along the Atlantic Sunrise gas pipeline’s 37-mile route in Lancaster County amid a confusing stay order issued by a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. on Monday. A temporary stay was issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 7, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Press Releases
Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines Disproportionately Target Minority and Low-Income Rural Communities, Say Tribunal Witnesses People’s Tribunal Judges Call for Immediate Suspension of Action on Pipelines Contacts Lakshmi Fjord, Friends of Buckingham: (510)...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 6, 2017 | Eminant Domain, For Landowners, Pipelines
WAWAYANDA – A federal appeals court has issued a preliminary order that prevents the start of construction of a gas pipeline to the nearly completed Competitive Power Ventures plant while state and federal regulators continue their dispute over a critical permit...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 6, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
Developers of a proposed natural gas pipeline are suing hundreds of landowners to gain rights of way granted by federal regulations. CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Developers of a proposed natural gas pipeline are suing hundreds of landowners in two states to gain rights of...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 6, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
HELENA, Ala. – For the second time in two months, a pipeline that supplies gasoline to millions of people was shut down, raising the specter of another round of gas shortages and price increases. The disruption occurred when a track hoe — a machine used to remove...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 4, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
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by Nelson Bailey | Nov 3, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety
South Portland’s fight is a cautionary tale about the power of money — and whether towns can set their own rules about oil and gas infrastructure. SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine—Can communities say no to energy companies? Hundreds of miles from the nearest oil field or...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 2, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
SANDISFIELD — On the very day the pipeline company got permission to put its new third line in service here, three anti-pipeline activists were arrested for blocking a road, and witnesses say Massachusetts State Police used a stun gun on one man when he tried to run...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 2, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Nov 2, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Local Rockingham County and Harrisonburg community members stand in solidarity with the pipeline fighters across the commonwealth in the anti-pipeline group called Rockingham Alliance for the Protection and Transformation of Our Resources and Society. The emergence of...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 2, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued its second notice of violation in five days Monday against the builder of the Mariner East 2 natural gas liquids pipeline for problems involving waterways in Lebanon County. This one stemmed from a DEP...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 2, 2017 | Health & Safety, Regulatory Permit Process
Last week, Roanoke County requested a rehearing from FERC At a meeting this week, the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution to petition FERC for a rehearing on the authorization of the construction and operation of the Mountain...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 1, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
(Lebanon) — Mariner East 2 pipeline builder Sunoco needs to work harder to prevent “drilling mud” spills, not just treat them after the fact. That’s the gist of a notice of violation the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 31, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
Earlier this week a group of 84 members of Congress sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking if the department plans to pursue an investigation against protesters who sabotaged pipelines and equipment last year in an effort to block the completion of the...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 31, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy, Spiritual Ecology
Four Democrats join 80 Republicans on letter asking the Attorney General to treat pipeline sabotage as domestic terrorism. Environmental activists who sabotage oil and gas pipelines to protect land, water, and the climate should be treated like out-and-out terrorists,...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 31, 2017 | Politics of energy, Spiritual Ecology
The FAA’s no-fly zone barred indigenous drone pilots from documenting the NoDAPL struggle, but private security aircraft continued surveillance. At the height of the movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline’s construction last fall, the Federal Aviation...
