by Nelson Bailey | Oct 4, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
Dirty Energy Dominance: Dependent on Denial – How the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry Depends on Subsidies and Climate Denial Oil Change International October 2017 Download the full report. A new report by Oil Change International reveals that U.S. taxpayers continue to...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 4, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality plans to disclose in December its recommendations to the State Water Control Board regarding water quality certification for two deeply controversial natural gas pipelines. DEQ said it will recommend conditions that the...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 4, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
Dominion Power says they’ve made no decision to expand the Atlantic Coast Pipeline into South Carolina. Last week the AP obtained a recording of Dominion executive Dan Weekly telling people at an energy conference that “everybody knows” the pipeline won’t stop in...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 30, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Opponents question level of demand in Virginia and North Carolina. Opposition to the massive Atlantic Coast Pipeline is intensifying after an executive with Dominion Energy, the primary developer of the project, told an industry audience that the pipeline will likely...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 29, 2017 | Press Releases
venteen years after the expiration of an easement, a federal judge has ordered an energy company to completely remove its pipeline from the properties of 38 Native American landowners — none of whom have been compensated for the company’s use of their land since the...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 29, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
The two joint ventures planning to route 42-inch diameter natural gas pipelines through forests and fields long to hear the whining roar and chatter of chainsaws felling trees. Both the Mountain Valley Pipeline and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline hope to start clearing...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 28, 2017 | Events, Politics of energy
When: Saturday, September 30, 2017 1:15-2 pm Where: Visitor Center, Sivananda Hall, 108 Yogaville Way, Buckingham, VA. 434-969-3121 X108 www.yogaville.org for directions. See flyer here:Tracy Carver Flyer FINALfinal Tracy Carver A military veteran,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 28, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Events
In the painful aftermath of the recent racist violence in Charlottesville, we seek to draw a straight line between these white supremacist attacks and the slow violence of unequally borne environmental devastation. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and the Mountain...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 28, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Sep 28, 2017 | Press Releases
Virginia regulators just finished hearing threedays of testimony about utilities’ long-term plans across the Commonwealth. Most notably, testimony established that Dominion Energy’s own data show construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would cost Dominion...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 27, 2017 | Accidents, Fracking, Health & Safety
Notice of Violation #13 for Rover Ohio EPA cited Rover Pipeline, LLC again this week for spilling contaminants into a stream: soap wastewater and soil/sediment into a tributary of Irish Creek, Loudon Township, Carroll County. The Notice of Violation comes only three...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 27, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Federal regulators are poised to approve the hotly contested Atlantic Coast Pipeline that would stretch for 600 miles from West Virginia, through Virginia and on to North Carolina. The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has completed a generally...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 26, 2017 | Press Releases
Utilities in Virginia and North Carolina are pushing an unnecessary pipeline, despite intense opposition from local communities. These are the stories of the people who will pay the price for Dominion’s and Duke’s wasteful project. View video Southern Environmental...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 26, 2017 | Press Releases
Photo courtesy of Chris Tandy. Anyone who examines the corporate deals that underlie the Atlantic Coast Pipeline comes away with a strong sense of looking at a broken regulatory system. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is supposed to approve only those...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 26, 2017 | Press Releases
Dear Friends of Buckingham, Barely a week ago, hundreds of Virginians across the state did something they had never done before. They protested simultaneously for two straight days in seven Virginia cities against Gov. Terry McAuliffe and his proposed fracked-gas...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 22, 2017 | Press Releases, Uncategorized
Sen. Capito, et.al. letter to FERC – 9-20-17 ABRA Statement on ACP letter to FERC – 9-8-17 (1) Posted by Nelson Bailey
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 22, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Sep 22, 2017 | Regulatory Permit Process
Legal experts predict New York environmental regulators will appeal decision. Federal energy regulators undercut a New York environmental agency Friday, allowing a pipeline company to go forward with a project the state had previously blocked. The Federal Energy...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 21, 2017 | Press Releases
It’s always sad when we have to report that a Marcellus/Utica-focused company goes out of existence. Northeast Energy Management, which operated under the name Northeast Energy with headquarters in Indiana, PA, claimed to be “a leader in tophole drilling in the...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 21, 2017 | Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission renewed its monthly meetings Wednesday, with commissioners applauding efforts that kept the agency moving through its workload during the unprecedented six-month lapse of a quorum and acknowledging the still-hefty backlog of...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 21, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety, Politics of energy
Leech lives in Elliston and teaches consumer studies at Virginia Tech. “The two pipeline — one route alternative,” (Sept. 14 commentary) clearly was written by someone who only cares about western Virginia and is willing to dump on the part he doesn’t live in. He has...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 21, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety, Pipelines
I oppose the Mountain Valley gas pipeline for the following reasons: Already too much real estate has been taken from Virginia commonwealth citizens via pipeline right-of-way and easements. The jobs promised by the state and gas company are only temporary....
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 21, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
The pipeline would pass through eight watersheds and many fragile wetlands. DONALDSONVILLE, LOUISIANA — Tour guides like to call Bayou Lafourche “the longest Main Street in the world.” The sleepy 65-mile stretch of water once lined with slave plantations now passes...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 20, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Natural Gas, Pipelines
Despite claims by the builders of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), the public interest will be best served if the ACP is not built. If the existing pipeline is used according to the 20-year agreements already in place to provide natural gas to Dominion...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 18, 2017 | Press Releases
At Thursday’s committee hearing, when Chairwoman Senator Murkowski asked the nominees, Richard Glick and Kevin McIntyre, to stand, Andrew Hinz also stood and shouted: Have a conscience! FERC is destroying the atmosphere! In a prepared statement, Hinz wrote: “Because I...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 18, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Politics of energy
If the public relations industry gave achievement awards for wishful obfuscation, consideration would be due the Enbridge spinmeister who dismissed Monday’s Minnesota Department of Commerce analysis as “only one view” on permitting for the company’s Line 3 pipeline...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 18, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety, Politics of energy
Massive tanks in Oklahoma brim with unrefined oil, but they weren’t designed to handle the rash of seismic activity caused by fracking-related activity. When Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas, U.S. oil refining plummeted to record lows. Now, nearly three weeks...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 18, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
WEST CHESTER >> State Sen. Andy Dinniman said Wednesday that he would appeal the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP’s) denial of his Right-to-Know Request to obtain a list of private groundwater wells located near the path of Sunoco Pipeline’s Mariner...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 18, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Politics of energy
If Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe’s Department of Environmental Quality continues its present course, it will likely suffer the same embarrassment. As public attention was focused on the destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey and the unfolding disaster of...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 16, 2017 | Press Releases
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ7) UPDATE The Montgomery county board of supervisors sent a letter to DEQ Wednesday morning. They asked the DEQ to reverse it’s position to give a blanket permit to MVP to cross Virginia waterways. That letter can be viewed to the...
