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...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 6, 2017 | For Landowners, Video & Audio
The Southern Environmental Law Center has just released the first in a series of short video clips profiling the impacts of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. I strongly commend to you this excellent video (under 4 minutes...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 3, 2017 | Pipelines, Press Releases
CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 2, 2017 CONTACT: Stephanie Weber, Virginia Director, Chesapeake Climate Action Network; stephanie@chesapeakeclimate.org; 757-871-8639 Denise Robbins, Communications Director, Chesapeake Climate Action...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 2, 2017 | Natural Gas, Pipelines
Oops! The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality denies that it’s backpedaling on a statement that it would review water crossings necessitated by the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines. Yet, after saying in April that it would require a separate...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 2, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
June 1 (Reuters) – U.S. federal energy regulators said Thursday that Ohio found petroleum hydrocarbon constituents, commonly found in diesel fuel, in drilling fluid samples near a spill that occurred during Energy Transfer Partners’ construction of the...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 1, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | May 31, 2017 | Pipelines, Press Releases
Dominion targeting low-income communities with pipeline Twenty-four of the 25 counties that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) would impact are below the median income level for their state. These low income counties will suffer further if the pipeline is constructed,...
by Nelson Bailey | May 29, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Re-release May 29, 2017 CONTACTS: Jamshid Bakhtiari, Chesapeake Climate Action Network; jamshid@chesapeakeclimate.org, (757) 386-8107 Denise Robbins, Chesapeake Climate Action Network; denise@chesapeakeclimate.org, (608) 620-8819 Virginia...
by Nelson Bailey | May 29, 2017 | Fracking, Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
The draft environmental impact statement on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is massive — over 2,300 pages. Reviewing it is a daunting task. But in their one and a half page treatment of the “No Action Alternative” required by law, FERC’s bottom line is clear: the...
by Nelson Bailey | May 28, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
‘Pipeline is not needed anymore’ Farmville Herald – Published 11:04 am Thursday May 24, 2017 By Joseph Jeeva...
by Nelson Bailey | May 27, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
Sunoco Logistics’ use of eminent domain to take private land to build its Mariner East 2 pipeline came into question again on Thursday when a Philadelphia court ruled that an environmental group can argue that the practice is unconstitutional. Judge Linda Carpenter of...
by Nelson Bailey | May 27, 2017 | Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam, under pressure from environmentalists to oppose two natural gas pipelines, told voters for weeks that he had won assurances from state regulators that they will increase scrutiny on the projects by assessing...
by Nelson Bailey | May 25, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | May 25, 2017 | Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
The Town of Dryden has suspended the storm water pollution prevention plan approval and building permits for Dominion Energy’s Borger Compressor Station in the Ellis Hollow neighborhood. The town suspended the permits when it was notified Dominion would be...
by Nelson Bailey | May 25, 2017 | Press Releases
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has reversed itself, saying that the state agency will not require specific water quality impact analysis for water crossings for the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP)....
by Nelson Bailey | May 24, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
The Consumer Energy Alliance, a front group for oil and gas interests and utilities including Dominion Energy Inc, has released a poll which it claims shows support for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a gas pipeline co-owned by Dominion. The poll claims to show that a...
by Nelson Bailey | May 24, 2017 | Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has denied several requests to halt Kinder Morgan’s Connecticut Pipeline Expansion Project in Massachusetts’ Otis State Forest. FERC says the requests made by Massachusetts Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, Congressman...
by Nelson Bailey | May 24, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality admitted Wednesday that it provided inaccurate information nearly seven weeks ago about how it plans to handle review of potential water quality impacts of two deeply controversial natural gas transmission...
by Nelson Bailey | May 24, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
A common refrain among Virginian legislators is that there is nothing they can do to stop Dominion’s proposed Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines (ACP and MVP, respectively). As they tell it, “The pipelines are a matter for FERC,” and that’s the...
by Nelson Bailey | May 24, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
When the state Department of Environmental Quality announced in April that it would require individual water-quality certifications for the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline projects, environmental groups applauded what they thought would be an...
by Nelson Bailey | May 23, 2017 | Accidents, Fossil Fuels
BISMARCK, N.D. — The Dakota Access pipeline system leaked more than 100 gallons of oil in North Dakota in two separate incidents in March – the second and third known leaks discovered as crews prepared the disputed $3.8 billion pipeline for operation. Two...
by Nelson Bailey | May 21, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ7) Representatives of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and landowners who oppose the controversial project met Friday in a Roanoke courtroom. The pipeline company was asking for an injunction that would allow surveying to resume on properties where crews...
by Nelson Bailey | May 20, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
The Rover pipeline is in trouble again, this time for storm water overflows on farm fields along its construction route. In a statement released Friday, Rover Pipeline officials responded to complaints from Ohio farmers regarding overflows that the company said are...
by Nelson Bailey | May 19, 2017 | PEIS, Pipelines
Mike Tidwell is director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. LaDelle McWhorter is chairperson of Virginia Organizing. More than 60 candidates for the Virginia House of Delegates have rejected campaign contributions from fossil-fuel giant Dominion Energy. Two...
by Nelson Bailey | May 19, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Dominion Resources wants the public to think the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a done deal. So, in a classic “fake news” move, company execs held a tele-press conference yesterday where they basically said as much. They say they have obtained most of the land,...
