by Nelson Bailey | May 18, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | May 18, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has curtailed work on a natural-gas pipeline in Ohio after the owner, Energy Transfer Partners, reported 18 leaks and spilled more than 2 million gallons of drilling materials. The pipeline regulator blocked Energy Transfer...
by Nelson Bailey | May 17, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Pipeline construction of Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 has caused three separate releases of drilling mud in May, with two incidents resulting in a combined total of 575 gallons of bentonite clay entering Chester Creek in Brookhaven, Delaware County, according to Sunoco...
by Nelson Bailey | May 17, 2017 | Natural Gas, Pipelines
Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), Dominion Energy’s $5 billion, 594-mile natural gas pipeline that will stretch from West Virginia through Virginia and into North Carolina, has begun an outreach program with Local Emergency Planning Committees in several West Virginia...
by Nelson Bailey | May 17, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
(WBRE/WYOU) How far can the power of eminent domain go? A federal judge ruled in favor of a natural gas pipeline company that sought to take some land using that tactic this afternoon. Part of a 200-mile natural gas pipeline will soon be running through Ryan Regec...
by Nelson Bailey | May 16, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 My wife I drove down from Little Valley in Bath County to participate in the rally for our environment outside of the Dominion shareholders meeting Wednesday. Dominion’s attempt to screen us from the view of shareholders by placing curtains...
by Nelson Bailey | May 15, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
On the morning of April 29, people near Greensburg opened their Facebook pages to a fiery reminder. The app’s “memory” algorithm picked up on the buzz created by images of an orange sky above Salem Township and asked users if they wanted to repost them on the one-year...
by Nelson Bailey | May 15, 2017 | Press Releases
A stunning development occurred during Dominion Resources’ annual shareholder meeting in Richmond last Wednesday. But as shareholders, board members, and company officials left the meeting, no one yet knew about it. What’s more, the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s coverage...
by Nelson Bailey | May 12, 2017 | Pipelines, Spiritual Ecology
Reynolds is retired from a global engineering and technology company. He lives in Roanoke. Will “The Virginia Way,” that shameless, slippery, insider relationship between Gov. Terry McAuliffe, his administration, a host of our General Assembly members, and several...
by Nelson Bailey | May 12, 2017 | Eminant Domain, Health & Safety
A Virginia State Police trooper asked a survey crew working Monday for Mountain Valley Pipeline to leave properties whose owners had not granted permission for the crews to study their land in Roanoke County for a possible pipeline route. The surveyors agreed to...
by Nelson Bailey | May 12, 2017 | Pipelines
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by Nelson Bailey | May 12, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | May 10, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
RICHMOND — Bill and Lynn Limpert rallied outside Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s Capitol Square offices Thursday with a poster-sized photo of themselves back home in rural Bath County, standing at the foot of a massive sugar maple. Measuring 12 feet around, the tree is part of...
by Nelson Bailey | May 10, 2017 | Press Releases
Today the Sierra Club filed a petition with the Virginia State Corporation Commission seeking a Declaratory Judgment that Dominion Virginia Power’s arrangement to obtain gas capacity in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is subject to Commission approval under the Virginia...
by Nelson Bailey | May 10, 2017 | Fracking, Politics of energy
Cannon Ball, ND – Today, a coalition of grassroots Indigenous groups from across Turtle Island joins the 121 First Nations and Tribes united by the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion, to launch a new, integrated divestment campaign against the banks funding...
by Nelson Bailey | May 10, 2017 | Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
A Rhode Island Indian tribe opposing a Massachusetts pipeline claims the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission violated federal law last month when it allowed tree-cutting in the Otis State Forest for Kinder Morgan’s Connecticut Expansion project. FERC...
by Nelson Bailey | May 10, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Energy Transfer, the company building the Rover natural gas distribution pipeline, to pay $431,000 for water and air pollution violations at various locations across the state. In its order issued Friday, OEPA also...
by Nelson Bailey | May 8, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
It’s been a tough few months for opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). First Donald Trump officially approved the $3.8 billion project. Then indigenous people were forced to clear out of the Oceti Sakowin and Sacred Stone protest camps. And with construction...
by Nelson Bailey | May 5, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | May 5, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
The scale of damage to mountain ridges in the path of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline remains open for debate, but Bill and Lynn Limpert say they have no doubt what the project would do to an old-growth forest along the mountain ridge facing their retirement home...
by Nelson Bailey | May 5, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | May 2, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
Enbridge’s plan for an expanded, relocated tar sands pipeline is getting help from high places. Late last year, Canada’s prime minister, noted internet bae and progressive cabinet-appointer Justin Trudeau, approved two new tar sands oil pipelines. Not only did the...
by Nelson Bailey | May 2, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
May 2, 2017 COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new rule that would rein in methane pollution from natural gas and oil wells on public lands in Ohio and other states is facing an uncertain fate. The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Methane and Waste Reduction Rule was finalized...
by Nelson Bailey | May 2, 2017 | Natural Gas, Pipelines
May 2, 2017 SEATTLE – The mother of all pipelines could be coming to the Northwest, and Native Americans in the region want their voices heard on the proposal. The Houston-based company, Kinder Morgan’s expanded TransMountain Pipeline would stretch from the...
by Nelson Bailey | May 2, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Natural Gas, Pipelines
Landowners and activists expected to descend on town of York on Wednesday for first public meeting on proposed construction after Trump revived it Life on the Keystone XL route: where opponents fear the ‘black snake’ Keystone XL: fear and enthusiasm fill the plains of...
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 28, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
In this exclusive video, taken by local activist and resident, Mitch Allen, Sabal Pipeline construction workers are seen excavating over one-thousand feet of pipeline in Wetland 034A (labeled in this FERC map) in Polk County and placing geotextile pipeline weights (or...
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 28, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
CLARKSBURG — Dominion Energy officials are pleased with progress on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project, with the start of construction about five months away. “The project continues to move forward on all fronts, and we are confident of a successful outcome,”...
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 28, 2017 | Press Releases
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by Nelson Bailey | Apr 28, 2017 | Press Releases
New research exposes how Dominion’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline would decapitate 38 miles of ridgelines in Virginia and West Virginia. Evidence will show project is OPPOSITE of “environmentally friendly” and states must reject it. RICHMOND, VA — A briefing...
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 25, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
March 26, 2017 In May of 2016 the Wayne Land and Mineral Group (WLMG) filed suit in federal court challenging the authority of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) to regulate natural gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin (DRB). DCS responded with an Amicus...
