by Nelson Bailey | Oct 15, 2016 | Coal, Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety
Oct 15, 2016, 9:09am EDT Updated Oct 15, 2016, 1:28pm EDT INDUSTRIES & TAGS Energy, Government & Regulations, Coal, Environment A 50-foot breach in the cooling-pond dam at Duke Energy’s H.F. Lee plant was visible at least a day before it was discovered, an...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 15, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Fracking, Pipelines
Three weeks ago, something incredible happened. The community of Buckingham came together to say a resounding “no” to Dominion’s proposed 53,515-horsepower fracked-gas compressor station. More than 150 people packed the room at a Buckingham County Planning Commission...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 15, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Published 10:38 am Thursday, October 13, 2016 About 25 people are expected to speak during a continued public hearing Monday at 6 p.m. regarding a special use permit request for a proposed 53,515 horsepower (hp) natural gas-fired compressor station in Buckingham. The...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 14, 2016 | Pipelines
Attorneys with the Charlottesville-based Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filed a new motion with federal regulators over Dominion’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). They say the pipeline’s new route would impact properties protected from...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 13, 2016 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Natural Gas
alerting public WRITTEN BYJim Pierobon12 hours ago PHOTO BY Jim Pierobon / Southeast Energy News A Virginia natural gas pipeline operator says is revisiting its notification procedures after a routine maintenance incident prompted more than 100 emergency calls and...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 12, 2016 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
By Rob Manch – Reporter Published: October 11, 2016, 11:41 pm ROANOKE COUNTY (WSLS 10) – We’re hearing from a woman in Roanoke County who says without her knowledge or consent, she came home Monday to find dozens of surveyors for the Mountain Valley Pipeline on...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 11, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events, Pipelines
A 63-year-old Buckingham County pastor and found- ing member of a group opposed to a 600-mile natural gas pipeline was arrested and charged with trespass- ing last week after protesting the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline and compressor station. Paul Wilson, pastor...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 10, 2016 | Health & Safety
BY MARCUS STERN AND SEBASTIAN JONES SEP 11, 2013 Jeffrey Wiese (center), PHMSA’s associate administrator for pipeline safety, testifies at a hearing on pipeline safety. Credit: Rep. Gus Bilirakis Jeffrey Wiese, the nation’s top oil and gas pipeline safety...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 9, 2016 | Climate Change, Health & Safety
By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says in a stark report that most of the world’s electricity can – and must – be produced from low-carbon sources by 2050. If not, the world faces...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 7, 2016 | Climate Change, Fossil Fuels
RICHMOND, Va. – Dominion Virginia Power wants to rely too heavily on fuels that change the climate, according to critics of the state’s largest utility. Dominion has filed its Integrated Resource Plan with the State Corporation Commission. Depending on which...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 6, 2016 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy, Uncategorized
Founder and director Mike Tidwell of Chesapeake Climate Action Network had this to say. Yesterday, I had the honor of being arrested side-by-side with U.S. Army veteran Russell Chisholm of Newport, Virginia, taking a stand to stop fracked-gas pipelines and demand true...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 6, 2016 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy, Spiritual Ecology
Posted: Oct 06, 2016 4:13 PM EDT Updated: Oct 06, 2016 4:13 PM EDT ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – New York and five other Northeastern states are suing federal regulators to force them to help ensure that upwind states control their pollution. The suit against the...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 6, 2016 | Environmental Justice, Press Releases
By ALI ROCKETT Richmond Times-Dispatch Twenty-three people were arrested Wednesday for trespassing in front of the Executive Mansion following a peaceful, three-day protest urging Gov. Terry McAuliffe to reject a pair of proposed fracked-gas pipelines, require power...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 5, 2016 | FERC communications, Politics of energy
Posted: Monday, October 3, 2016 2:00 am Maybe it is time for FERC to listen to outside experts and not just rely on its staff, which love to rubber-stamp “Approval” for all pipelines? Synapse Energy Economics, Inc., a leading international research and...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 3, 2016 | Climate Change, Health & Safety
Oil Sector, Investors React to SEC Probe of Exxon Over Climate Change; Many see investigation as potentially transformative moment for U.S. companies Olson, Bradley; Rapoport, Michael. Wall Street Journal (Online) [New York, N.Y] 21 Sep 2016: n/a Abstract According to...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 2, 2016 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Eighty-three-year-old Hazel Palmer could become the Suzette Kelo of Virginia — the face of a property-rights revolution. She has a piece of land in Augusta County along the proposed route of the 600-mile, $5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline. It has been in her...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 2, 2016 | Accidents, Environmental Justice, Health & Safety, Pipelines
On a routine check of a surface coal mining facility in rural Alabama early this month, inspector Randall Aldridge first smelled gasoline. Then he saw dead plants and animals along a man-made pond that helps the region manage heavy rain. The cause had nothing to do...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 1, 2016 | Climate Change, Politics of energy
An environmental group has sued oil giant ExxonMobil Corp., alleging the company is improperly polluting a Massachusetts river and putting it at further risk by not preparing for climate change. The lawsuit, from the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), says an Exxon...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 1, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events
Nearly 30 people blasted and condemned a proposed 53,515 horsepower (hp) compressor station during a public hearing before the Buckingham County Planning Commission Monday night. The speakers came after the commission agreed that it would receive public comment...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 29, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events
About 150 people came to a meeting of the Buckingham County Planning Commission Monday to protest Dominion’s plan for a compressor station that would push natural gas through the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Sandy Hausman reports on why area residents are worried and what...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 24, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events
Health and Safety at Risk for Buckingham County Residents ACP Buckingham Compressor Station Public Hearing Where: County Administration Building, Rt 60, 13380 West James Anderson Hwy Buckingham, VA 23921 When: Monday, 9/26/2016, 7 PM Pre-event offerings: 4:30...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 28, 2016 | Accidents, Compressor Stations
USGS Shakemap Aug. 23, 2011 Virginia Earthquake (USGS) On Aug. 23, 2011, those living in eastern North America, from Ontario to Georgia, felt an unexpected shock as the earth trembled in the wake of a 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck near the town of Mineral,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 28, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events
There will be a Public Hearing with the Buckingham Planning Commission for a special use zoning permit for the proposed ACP compressor station on Monday September 26, at 7 pm in the Administration Building on Rt 60 in Buckingham Courthouse [the name of the town, not...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 27, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
Protesters hoped a federal judge would halt the controversial Dakota Access pipeline being built across the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. Aug 25, 2016 by Lisa Song with Inside Climate News. Activists resisting a controversial oil pipeline in a growing...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 27, 2016 | Compressor Stations
Farmville Herald Thursday August 25, 2016 A public hearing is set for 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 26, regarding a potential 53,515 horsepower (hp) compressor station in Buckingham County — part of a 600-mile natural gas pipeline proposed by Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP)...
by Kenda Hanuman | Aug 13, 2016 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
MORTON COUNTY — A movie star on Thursday joined the largest protest yet to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from crossing the Missouri River near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Source: Movie star joins pipeline protest as 10 arrested in heavily policed...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 11, 2016 | Compressor Stations
Hello neighbors near and far! There will be 2 public hearings for air permits for the Buckingham proposed compressor station in September and October, [could be August]. The first will be with the Planning Commission [fourth Mondays – September 26], and then...
by Kenda Hanuman | Aug 10, 2016 | Events, Fossil Fuels
Join us! Bring your prayers, t-shirts, signs, hopes n dreams! Thursday, August 18, 6:30 pm Please arrive at 6 pm. Rt 56, Wingina Bridge crossing the James River, linking Nelson and Buckingham Counties. Please see the flyer for the event, link below: haol 2016(2) (1)...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 2, 2016 | Events, Fossil Fuels, Sustainability
At high Noon Sunday, with temperatures heading toward 95 degrees, I’m confident I was not the only one preparing to march through the streets of downtown Philadelphia who recalled that old elementary-school story about the wig-wearing drafters of the Declaration...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 2, 2016 | Events
Hundreds of demonstrators marched from Brown’s Island to the Executive Mansion on Saturday in protest of proposed pipeline projects and to call on Gov. Terry McAuliffe to support renewable energy. The group gathered for a rally on the James River before...
