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 1, 2018 | Accidents, Fossil Fuels
Noble County, OH — First responders were on the scene of a pipeline explosion and fire in Noble County early Wednesday morning. Officials say the incident happened around 2:30 a.m. about 3 miles north of Summerfield along State Route 513. The pipeline has been...
by Nelson Bailey | Feb 1, 2018 | For Landowners, Fossil Fuels
With just a few hours remaining until Thursday, the day that Mountain Valley Pipeline had hoped to start work on a natural gas pipeline through Southwest Virginia, a judge put a pause to those plans. The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth Dillon came...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 22, 2018 | Health & Safety, Natural Gas
Five people were missing Monday after an explosion at an Oklahoma drilling rig sent plumes of black smoke into the sky, emergency officials said. The drilling rig in Quinton, about 100 miles southeast of Tulsa, exploded just before 9 a.m. while about two dozen people...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 21, 2018 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
Duke Energy and other advocates for building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline have come up with a peculiar new justification for the $5 billion project – climate change. They say this winter’s record-setting run of sub-freezing temperatures led to a spike in natural gas...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 12, 2018 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
Banks that pulled funding from the Dakota Access Pipeline due to strong public opposition are now teaming up with the pipeline’s developer on another controversial fossil fuel project. Energy Transfer Partners, the lead developer of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in...
