by Nelson Bailey | Jul 14, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
RICHMOND — The Supreme Court of Virginia ruled Thursday on two cases related to the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline, handing opponents a minor victory but otherwise leaving the huge project unscathed. The court found in favor of a small group of landowners in...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 14, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Jul 14, 2017 | For Landowners, Politics of energy
The Supreme Court of Virginia has upheld a state law that allows natural gas companies to enter private property without landowner permission to survey the route of a potential pipeline, but also required the companies to notify landowners of specific dates when crews...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 11, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
BENT MOUNTAIN, Va. (WDBJ7) Bent Mountain resident Kathy Chandler called police Monday morning when Mountain Valley Pipeline crews showed up ready to survey her land. “They were just here a month ago,” Chandler said. “We were just doing this a month...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 11, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is set hold a public comment period and five public hearings around the state next month to receive comments on draft water quality certifications “designed to protect water quality” along the route of the...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 8, 2017 | Press Releases
Heidi Dhivya — “AWAKE: A Dream From Standing Rock” is the new documentary film from directors Josh Fox (“Gasland”), James Spione and Myron Dewey that chronicles the Water Protectors movement and #NoDAPL resistance camps at Standing Rock....
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 8, 2017 | Press Releases, Uncategorized
All, Today we heard good news in the fight against the massive fracked gas pipelines proposed for Virginia. The Department of Environmental Quality, under Governor Terry McAuliffe, has finally agreed to conduct individualized reviews of the Mountain Valley Pipeline...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 8, 2017 | FERC communications, Politics of energy
A federal agency issued its final environmental statement (EIS) on June 23 for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project. The release marked a major milestone, setting the stage for a decision from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) about whether the...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 8, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
By Kevin Campbell and April Keating Mountaineer Voices for Change & Mountain Lakes Preservation Alliance Are you paying for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline? Even if you haven’t invested directly, your money may still be used to support it. If you are a member at any...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 8, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Pipelines
Around a dozen Chester County households experienced cloudy water or loss of supply from their private wells this week, forcing some families from their homes near a location where Sunoco Pipeline is conducting horizontal directional drilling about 150 feet below...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is the family who owned Variety Shades, and sold a parcel to Dominion for the proposed compressor station site. I wanted to write a bit about the Variety Shade house that I knew as a child before it was torn down to prevent a fire that might burn down the nearby...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 7, 2017 | Events, Pipelines
About six people recently concluded a 150-mile walk across five counties along a portion of the planned 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) route at the intersection of Union Hill Road and Route 56 in Buckingham County. The event, which began June 17 and concluded...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 7, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Jul 6, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety
A public relations firm for Sunoco Pipeline says it wants to “neutralize opposition” to the controversial Mariner East 2 pipeline project. Bravo Group, which has worked with different parts of Sunoco for at least five years, makes the statement on its website, in...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 6, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
Evidently, ensuring that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s 1,989 water-body crossings comply with Virginia’s water-quality standards is just too big a job for our Department of Environmental Quality, even if it is its job, so the Department of Environmental Quality handed...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 5, 2017 | Politics of energy, Press Releases
Virginia’s Director of Natural Resources has warned Dominion that state regulators will not be swayed by company requests or suggestions when deciding whether to issue permits for construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. That’s good news for pipeline opponents,...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 5, 2017 | Economic Impacts, For Landowners, Pipelines
HUNTINGDON — A Huntingdon County judge ruled this week that a family camped out on its own property has to vacate the premises to allow construction to continue for the Mariner East 2 Pipeline. Ellen Gerheart and her husband have owned the property that is now...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 5, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Is the Atlantic Coast Pipeline permit too big to deny? Maybe keeping track of the ACP’s 1,989 water body crossings by our DEQ is just too big a job, even if it is their job. The Natural Gas Act specifically preserves state authority to approve or deny a Water Quality...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 5, 2017 | Events, Pipelines
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) – Sunday, anti-pipeline hikers reached the end of the line on their two-week trek following the path of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline across the Shenandoah Valley and central Virginia. The hikers celebrated the completion of...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 2, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Responding to a request by Sunoco Logistics, a Huntingdon County judge has ordered a family and their supporters off the construction path of the Mariner East 2, which runs through their property. The ruling by Judge George Zanic means the family could be arrested on...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 2, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Spiritual Ecology
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by Nelson Bailey | Jul 2, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
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by Nelson Bailey | Jul 2, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Colorado has nearly 129,000 underground oil and gas pipelines within about 1,000 feet (300 meters) of occupied buildings, according to energy company reports ordered by the state after a fatal house explosion blamed on a severed gas line. Friday was the deadline for...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 1, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Jun 28, 2017 | Press Releases
Friends of Buckingham has been working for 2½ years to fight the only Virginia compressor station planned for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). For the past year, we have been working closely with PSR in highly productive collaborations. The compressor station has...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 28, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline. AFTER MONTHS OF employing military-style counterinsurgency tactics to subvert opposition to the...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 28, 2017 | Eminant Domain, Natural Gas
Mountaineer Gas will be in the Morgan County Courthouse in Berkeley Springs this Friday June 30 at 9 am in an effort to forcibly take parts of the Kesecker family farm by eminent domain for a controversial gas pipeline. Christopher Robertson Jackson Kelly The proposed...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 28, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Workers have removed an estimated 1,700 gallons of oil which spilled from a pipe in Convis Township. Workers from Omimex Energy in Ludington, which owns the well, and several subcontractors have been working 12-hours each day since a leak was discovered June 12 in a...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 28, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Jobs, land, environmental and public health all considerations for project CENTREVILLE, Va. – The proposed WB XPress Pipeline Project would impact West Virginia and Virginia, but two miles of new pipeline would be constructed in Western Fairfax County park land,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 25, 2017 | Events, Pipelines
A celebratory walk along the proposed fracked-gas pipeline (ACP) path. See for yourself what is on the line – The forest habitats, mountains, farms and homes that are in danger of irreversible destruction. Starting in Highland County, June 16, we will...
