by Nelson Bailey | Jun 23, 2017 | Press Releases
Neighbors from all over Virginia are currently on a two-week walk along the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) route and they are coming to Buckingham, going to church and inviting you to come sing a song with them at Union Hill Baptist Church on July 2 at 10 am....
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 22, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Four actions: Call & write your legislators. Sign the 2 petitions below. Recent decisions by the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to allow the Corps of Engineers to review the water body crossings as part of the Nationwide 12 permit process does not...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 22, 2017 | Natural Gas, Pipelines
June 21, 2017 Tom Hadwin, a former utility executive at Consumers Energy in Michigan and New York State Electric and Gas, explains the way Dominion and Duke Energy have manufactured a false need for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline by over-estimating future demand. SELC,...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 22, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Are You SAFE? That all depends on how close you live to the proposed pipeline route and the direction of the wind. First of all, the Nexus proposed pipeline is NOT a little 6″ line that brings gas to your house. This is a massive 36″ diameter gas transmission line...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 22, 2017 | Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
A coalition of environmental groups wants a hearing on the need for Dominion Energy’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline, claiming in a federal filing today that the justifications for the 600-mile, $5.5 billion natural gas pipeline project have “eroded, if they ever existed.”...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 22, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) and Piedmont Natural Gas want state regulators to approve an extension of gas purchase agreements they made with the Atlantic Coast Pipeline that are set to expire June 30. The agreements, signed in April 2014, can be terminated on that date...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 20, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
The federal agency that governs interstate natural gas pipelines is scheduled to release its final environmental impact statement on the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline on Friday. No one should be surprised by what it has to say. Friday’s document will set the clock...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 18, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality confirmed last week that past approaches to reviewing utility projects would not suffice for analyzing the potential environmental impacts of two 42-inch diameter natural gas pipelines that could burrow through the state....
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 17, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
There is a growing political scandal in Virginia regarding the ubiquitous influence of the state’s largest energy company, Dominion Energy, and it’s raising fundamental questions about the integrity of the governor’s office and state regulators who...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 17, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
This story was a collaboration between the Center for Public Integrity and StateImpact Oklahoma, a reporting project of NPR member stations in Oklahoma. Jennifer Merritt’s first graders at Jefferson elementary school in Pryor, Oklahoma, were in for a treat. Sitting...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 17, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
Federal energy regulators overseeing the development of a new interstate natural gas pipeline have announced the opening of an investigation, following the inadvertent release of about 2 million gallons of drilling fluid from a horizontal directional drill operation....
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 15, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Jun 15, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety
Supervisors in Buckingham tabled a special use permit for Dominion on Monday to construct a 195-foot microwave communications tower as part of its proposed 53,783-horsepower compressor station along the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project. The board’s...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 15, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
Discussions continue regarding memorandums of understanding (MOUs) that could result in Buckingham County having control and access to a natural gas tap off of a lateral line from the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project. “We talked a long time ago about...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 15, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
In what’s being hailed a ‘significant victory’ for pipeline’s opponents, a judge said he would consider whether operations must halt until assessment is redone A federal judge has handed a lifeline to efforts to block the Dakota Access pipeline, ruling Wednesday that...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 13, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ7) A Montgomery County group fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline now has the support of their local government to ask for help in protecting their water. Preserve Montgomery County asked the Board of Supervisors in their meeting Monday...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 13, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
A DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY in Virginia that shaped up as a contest between the party’s populist wing and its establishment has added a new twist: The state’s biggest power company is helping to get out the vote — and it isn’t hard to figure out why. The two Democrats in the...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 12, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
The industry-funded Your Energy is trying to mobilize a movement to counter pipeline protesters. Amid intensifying fights over new natural gas pipelines in Virginia, New Jersey and New England, the gas industry is ramping up its defense with a new front group meant...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 12, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
On May 12, just weeks before Democrats and Republicans in Virginia will vote in primaries for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, Thomas Farrell, the head of Dominion Energy, Inc. sent a letter to its 76,000 current and retired employees and...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 12, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
Readers may recall our piece from March, about resistance to the proposed construction of the Nexus pipeline. The pipeline, in which DTE Energy is part owner, is essentially intended to carry natural gas fracked from the western Pennsylvania area to the Dawn Hub in...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 12, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Everyone who lives within miles of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) should be concerned about safety. The company assures us that the ACP will be safe. However, most of the area through which the ACP passes is considered “low consequence” because there are...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 12, 2017 | Events, Pipelines
ROANOKE, VA – A group opposed to the Mountain Valley Pipeline is hosting an event this weekend, and gubernatorial candidate Tom Perriello will be there to support them. Bold Alliance representative Carolyn Reilly says just last week, she had to get...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 9, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Jun 8, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
In the latest example of gross negligence during the construction of a natural gas pipeline, construction workers for Florida Southeast Connection (FSC) Pipeline —which is the connecting pipeline that will eventually merge with the controversial Sabal Trail...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 8, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
New analysis uses coal-fired plants as guide for explaining pipeline’s life-cycle emissions. Given the crisis of global climate change, anti-fossil fuel activists have sought to draw attention to the climate impacts of extracting, transporting, and burning natural...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 8, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
Groups fighting Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline are suing the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality over its decision to certify that a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers “blanket” permit for the project will adequately protect water quality in the state. The...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 7, 2017 | Compressor Stations, Health & Safety
Thanks to Irene Leech for these thoughts about the proposed Buckingham ACP compressor station communications tower. Also, please click here for a brief look at the shocking unequal protections/standards meted out by the Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 7, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
At the Glenwood Elementary School in Media, Pennsylvania, roughly 450 students interrupted their regular schedules one day this month for an unusual emergency drill. Just after 1:30 p.m. on May 3, the entire student body practiced sheltering in place in the...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 6, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Sierra Club and activist groups from Michigan and Ohio reque Grassroots and environmental groups want the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to stop Energy Transfer’s Rover Pipeline from using a drilling technique that recently caused the spillage of millions of...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 6, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
Rover is Energy Transfer’s $3.7 billion, 711-mile Marcellus/Utica natural gas pipeline that will run from PA, WV and eastern OH through OH into Michigan and eventually into Canada. On April 13, Rover workers experienced an “inadvertent return” of “horizontal...
