by Kenda Hanuman | May 6, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Health & Safety
Letter to Gov Cuomo
by Kenda Hanuman | May 6, 2016 | Compressor Stations
Get the facts: BREDL Factsheet_compressor_stations
by Kenda Hanuman | May 5, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Health & Safety
Emissions report 20140415compressors copy
by Kenda Hanuman | May 5, 2016 | Health & Safety, Natural Gas
The Compendium focuses on topics most closely related to the public health and safety impacts of unconventional gas and oil drilling and fracking. Additional risks and harms arise from associated infrastructure and industrial activities that necessarily...
by Kenda Hanuman | May 3, 2016 | For Landowners, Pipelines
Richmond, VA — Facing a legal challenge from Appalachian Mountain Advocates, Dominion Energy may have just backed down from one of its most intrusive pipeline survey practices. Dominion attorneys filed notice with the Supreme Court of Virginia purporting to...
by Kenda Hanuman | May 3, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice
Preservation Virginia released a list of Virginia’s Most Endangered Scenic Places that includes the three sites as one entry under a new category of “cultural resources threatened by utility infrastructure projects.” Source: Historic preservation group takes aim at...
by Kenda Hanuman | May 1, 2016 | Natural Gas, Pipelines
The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation’s board of trustees announced that it opposes the construction of two proposed natural gas transmission pipelines that would cross the parkway in Virginia. Source: Blue Ridge Parkway foundation opposes pipelines – Richmond...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 1, 2016 | Events
Tuesday, May 3 at 10:00 A.M. Union Hill Baptist Chuch State Route 663/Union Hill Rd Buckingham Va 23921 Please join Preservation Virginia and members of the local community to raise awareness of local threatened historic places. Lakshmi Fjord, PhD, has steadily...
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 29, 2016 | Accidents, Pipelines
A pipeline explosion sparks a fire with huge flames Friday in Westmoreland County, leaving a man burned, causing damage to nearby utilities and prompting evacuations. Source: ‘It was like looking into hell:’ Natural gas explosion sparks large fire in Salem...
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 28, 2016 | Health & Safety
Dominion Virginia Power began discharging treated coal ash wastewater from its Bremo Station in Fluvanna County into the James River Wednesday. Source: Protesters in Fluvanna County Hold Funeral for James River – NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and...
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 28, 2016 | Pipelines
We’ve published a report today that concludes that two natural gas pipelines proposed for construction from West Virginia into Virginia and North Carolina are indicative of a rush toward industry overbuilding. The study, “Risks Associated With Natural Gas Pipeline...
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 28, 2016 | Coal, Health & Safety
For Marion Kanour, it was a sad but not surprising climax to months of protests, demonstrations and lobbying against Dominion Virginia Power’s plans to discharge millions of gallons of treated coal ash wastewater into the James River. Source: Dominion Virginia Power...
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 28, 2016 | Pipelines
Paying for the Pipelines: The high cost of switching to natural gas May 3, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. EST Register now! As of 2008, the United States was criss-crossed by more than 305,000 miles of natural gas pipelines, and since then this figure has risen steadily. In...
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 22, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Health & Safety, Video & Audio
Physicians are stepping up to address health impacts of pipeline infrastructure. Source: Webinar: Health Impacts of Gas Infrastructure Pipelines & Compressors | PSR
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 21, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
The controversial Northeast Energy Direct pipeline won’t be coming through New Hampshire. Source: Kinder Morgan suspends plans for NED pipeline – SentinelSource.com: The Keene Sentinel Local News
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 20, 2016 | Climate Change, Events, Fossil Fuels
Strength in numbers! Source: What’s Coming Down the Pipeline? « Appalachian Voices
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 20, 2016 | Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
On Monday, I allowed myself to be arrested for a cause vitally important to the Sierra Club: a democracy where every voice is heard. In this organization’s history, we’ve learned that in order to protect our environment—our clean air, clean water, and wild places—we...
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 10, 2016 | Compressor Stations, For Landowners
Source: The Recorder – ‘The Monster of Minisink,’ a cautionary tale
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 9, 2016 | Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Sustainability
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 8, 2016 | Renewables, Wind
The United States lags decades behind European countries in offshore wind energy, so costs here are greater. Dominion Resources Inc. says it’s cut the potential cost of its offshore wind farm test project by as much as $100 million by breaking it down into...
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 5, 2016 | Climate Change, Renewables, Solar
After architect, Rolf Disch, built the Heliotrope (the first building in the world to capture more energy than it uses) he set his sights higher. He successfully created a retail, commercial and residential space called Sonnenschiff, translating to “Solar...
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 4, 2016 | Accidents, Compressor Stations, Health & Safety
The Spectra Energy pipeline expansion has been given the go-ahead, but inadequate safeguards make me scared for my children’s health Source: A pipeline’s being expanded 400 ft from my home – wouldn’t you be worried? | Courtney M Williams
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 1, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
The Palmetto Pipeline is halted due to eminent domain dispute. Source: Kinder Morgan Inc. Presses Pause on the Palmetto Pipeline Project — The Motley Fool
by Kenda Hanuman | Apr 1, 2016 | Natural Gas, Pipelines
PennEast will have to wait longer than initially anticipated to receive final approval for its 115-mile natural gas pipeline which is proposed to cut through Northampton County as part of its route. Source: PennEast pipeline project facing seven month delay –...
by Kenda Hanuman | Mar 29, 2016 | Conservation
Together with the city of Charlottesville, the Local Energy Alliance Program is offering the Clean Energy Loan Fund to help promote a greener city. Source: LEAP, Charlottesville Offer Program to Help Businesses Go Green – NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 26, 2016 | Pipelines
By MICHAEL MARTZ Richmond Times-Dispatch Steel pipe will begin rolling off a production line next month for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, but a Dominion-led development company is still awaiting federal review of a newly revised route for the proposed 600-mile project....
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 26, 2016 | Economic Impacts
This new wave of bad loans isn’t the same magnitude of the housing bust, but it reflects similar behaviors. Borrowers feasted on what Bloomberg estimates was $237 billion of easy money without scrutinizing whether the loans could endure a drastic downturn. The...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 26, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety
RICHMOND, Va (WVIR) – Good coverage: 2 1/2 minute video from NBC Activists are calling for an explanation and different decisions from the commonwealth’s lead environmental regulator. A group of about 20 gathered outside the Department of Environmental...
by Kenda Hanuman | Feb 29, 2016 | Renewables, Sustainability
Image Courtesy Columbia Power Charlottesville-based Columbia Power just returned from an international conference in Scotland, where it was awarded one of the only statements of feasibility for wave power technology. Source: Charlottesville Company Reaches Milestone...
by Kenda Hanuman | Feb 28, 2016 | Climate Change, Health & Safety
Some in Congress have tried to convince us that climate change is the business of polar bears — that African-Americans are more interested in the money than the environment. That just isn’t true. Source: Opinion/Commentary: Clean power can help fuel black communities...
