by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 9, 2018 | Pipelines
Mountain Valley Pipeline RICHMOND, Va. – Attorney General Mark Herring and the Department of Environmental Quality has filed a lawsuit against the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The filing sites repeated environmental violations in Craig, Franklin,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 4, 2018 | Pipelines
ROANOKE — A federal agency has ordered a stop to construction of the entire Mountain Valley Pipeline, which has run into repeated problems with erosion since it began its path through the Roanoke and New River valleys. In a letter to pipeline officials Friday, the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 3, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
by Jon Sokolow In a powerful statement published by Blue Virginia here for the first time, the Virginia State Chapter of the NAACP has called on the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality to halt all construction activity for both the Mountain Valley and...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 28, 2018 | Compressor Stations, For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Introduction: We have been researching best methods of baseline testing of water, in addition to air, noise, and health going on 2 years now. We applied for a grant to cover 30 well water sites along the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) path in Buckingham. So...
by Nelson Bailey | Feb 5, 2018 | Economic Impacts, Pipelines
Gov. Roy Cooper last week brokered a controversial memorandum of understanding with Dominion Power, which co-owns with Duke Energy, the even more controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Under the agreement, Duke and Dominion will pay a total of $57.8 million to a...
by Nelson Bailey | Feb 5, 2018 | Accidents, Pipelines
BISMARCK, N.D. — Crestwood Equity Partners has paid a $49,000 fine to the Environmental Protection Agency for a pipeline leak in 2014 that spilled 1 million gallons of produced water on the Fort Berthold Reservation in northwestern North Dakota and contaminated Lake...
