by Nelson Bailey | Jul 27, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
I’m glad to see that Dominion Energy is helping to sponsor native plantings along power line rights-of-way and in tiny Bluemont Park (“Encouraging Native Plants” July 5). It would be easier, however, to see Dominion’s ecological concern as sincere if the effort didn’t...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 27, 2017 | Press Releases
I am eager to respond to the article “Shipman residents with pipeline experience among ACP supporters” in the July 20 edition of the Nelson County Times. While I deeply respect the pride Pete Wood and Jason Tolbert take in the work they have done, I feel obligated to...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 26, 2017 | Press Releases
About a year ago James Golden, Director of Operations at the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), indicated that applications for water quality certification of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) could be denied “in...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 25, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Health & Safety
Sunoco crews work in front of the valve station for the Mariner East 2 pipeline on Boot Road in West Goshen Tuesday. A judge shut down drilling operations for the project across all of Pennsylvania with a decision issued Tuesday. PETE BANNAN – DIGITAL FIRST MEDIA A...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 24, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
Thank heaven for Alabama Power! Were it not for them, Virginia would have, in Dominion Energy, the least energy efficient utility in the whole US. The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), which has long ranked states, cities and countries on their...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 24, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
In the upper reaches of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, Tim and Chris Camman walk daily through a thick wood, shaded by a canopy of tall hemlocks, white pines and hardwoods. Dappled sunlight filters through, with only the sounds of birds and Carrs Creek as it bubbles...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 23, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
Federal regulators say the proposed 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project — one that would result a 42-inch natural gas pipeline spanning Buckingham and parts of Cumberland and Prince Edward along with a 53,783-horsepower gas-fired compressor station along...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 22, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
The House voted Wednesday to streamline the federal permitting process for a variety of oil and natural gas pipelines. Lawmakers voted 248-179 on the Promoting Interagency Coordination for Review of Natural Gas Pipelines Act, a bill by Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas) to...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 22, 2017 | Press Releases
To ABRA mailing list: The Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and is available at: https://ferc.gov/industries/gas/enviro/eis/2017/07-21-17-FEIS/volume-I.pdf. There is also...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 22, 2017 | Press Releases
Attached is a copy of the press release that has just been issued by the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance to media in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina commenting upon this morning’s issuance by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of the Final...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 22, 2017 | Fracking, Health & Safety
VERONA – The Augusta County Board of Supervisors voted Wednesday night to prohibit fracking in the county in a move to keep clean water flowing in the area. Augusta is the first county in the commonwealth to pass a zoning ordinance that completely prohibits...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 22, 2017 | Press Releases
To ABRA mailing list – The U.S. Forest Service this afternoon issued a draft record of decision to authorize the use and occupancy of National Forest System lands for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The Forest Service release statement is available...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 21, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Jul 21, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
STAUNTON, Va. (WVIR) -The public comment period is open for a pair of pipelines trying to get a clean water certification. Local and Vocal in Staunton hosted a meeting Wednesday night at the Staunton Public Library to talk about the threat the proposed Atlantic Coast...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 20, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
Construction of Sunoco Pipeline’s $3 billion 350-mile long Mariner East 2 pipeline resulted in at least 61 drilling mud spills from April 25 through June 17, 2017, according to newly released documents. The spills have occurred in ten of the 12 counties along the...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 20, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
• Neighbors worry about how pipeline will impact environment. By SHAUN SAVARESE Of The Record Staff Cumberland and Johnston county residents voiced critical concern about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), asking for answers and imploring a state agency to deny a...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 20, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Dominion Energy is moving full speed ahead with its Atlantic Coast Pipeline, but one Hampton Roads resident is saying, “Not in my backyard.” Paulette Johnson bought the property in Suffolk 10 years ago, and when she did, she had no thought even...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 20, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
These last 3 years of fighting the approval of the Atlantic Coast pipeline, we have constantly heard from our elected officials that “there is nothing I can do” and “it’s a federal issue”. I think it is time for them to step aside and make room for people who will...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
by Jonathan Sokolow, an attorney and activist from Reston, Virginia. In March 1865, as the Civil War approached its fiery end, Congress created the United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau. “The Bureau...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 19, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
Last week, Virginia’s Supreme Court upheld a state law that allows natural gas companies to survey private property without the owner’s permission for a proposed pipeline, but legal experts say landowners could still block construction as Sandy Hausman reports. Future...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 19, 2017 | Press Releases
Approximately twenty people arrived at the Forest Service’s Supervisor Office on Valleypointe Parkway in Roanoke Monday morning to demand a meeting with the supervisor of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, Joby Timm. The group of residents and...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 17, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
Federal court orders removal of natural gas pipeline in Oklahoma for trespassing on original Kiowa Indian lands The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma has ordered a natural gas pipeline operator to cease operations and remove the pipeline located...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 17, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
LOS ANGELES (CN) – After a massive methane gas leak at SoCalGas’s Aliso Canyon underground gas storage facility displaced thousands of families and took more than 100 days to plug, many residents in surrounding neighborhoods felt the energy company had gotten off...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 17, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
Court shelves property rights in favor of Dominion land grab I am disappointed, although not surprised by the Virginia Supreme Court rulings regarding surveying for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). Our personal freedoms and private property rights have been...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 17, 2017 | Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
They landed, one after another, in 2015: plans for nearly a dozen interstate pipelines to move natural gas beneath rivers, mountains and people’s yards. Like spokes on a wheel, they’d spread from Appalachia to markets in every direction. Together these new...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 14, 2017 | Environmental Justice
© Getty Images Federal officials are investigating the developer building a controversial natural gas pipeline over alleged “misstatements” regarding its construction in Ohio. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) staff said in a Thursday notice that...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 14, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
(ANTIMEDIA) Bastrop County, TX — A crude oil pipeline spill in Bastrop County, Texas, Thursday morning released an estimated 1,200 barrels of oil — over 50,000 gallons — prompting evacuations of residents closest to the rupture. The Longhorn Pipeline is owned and...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 14, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines, Politics of energy
WEST WHITELAND, Pa. (CBS)–Some residents in Chester County are dealing with brown water flowing into their homes, and some have lost their well water completely. They blame a pipeline Sunoco is digging beneath their properties. David Mano showed CBS3 brown and cloudy...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 14, 2017 | For Landowners, Politics of energy
BENT MOUNTAIN — As Tuesday dawned, Mike Lester spotted a group of pipeline surveyors hustling on foot down Green Hollow Drive, a private road on Bent Mountain that passes by Lester’s home. “They was getting along pretty good,” Lester said later. He phoned neighbor...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 14, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
The stretch of Appalachian Trail through the Blue Ridge Mountains here is prized by hikers from around the world for its open ridgelines, spectacular geologic formations and challenging slopes. But one of the country’s most iconic viewsheds could soon be changed...
