by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 1, 2017 | Regulatory Permit Process
The horse isn’t dead but it’s surely taking a beating. “Incomplete” and “insufficient.” A “rolling document” that challenges public review. Hazards that “have not been not fully assessed.” These and other comments filed Wednesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 31, 2016 | Regulatory Permit Process
A long-awaited federal draft environmental impact statement issued Friday says Dominion’s proposed 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline would have “some adverse and significant environmental impacts,” though most would be reduced to “less-than-significant levels” with...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 26, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events, Uncategorized
Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC [ACP] has applied for a special use permit [SUP] for a proposed 53,000 + hp compressor station in an agricultural A-1 zone in the Woods Corner/Union Hill neighborhood on Rt 56, adjacent to the Transco pipeline. The Board of Supervisors will...
by Kaveri Helsley | Dec 23, 2016 | Coal, Economic Impacts
A golf course built on 1.5 million tons of coal ash that loses $100,000 a month and is a magnet for headlines about potential environmental contamination might not seem like a property to covet. Yet for three years, a bitter legal brawl that reached the Supreme Court...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 22, 2016 | Compressor Stations
Local lawmakers are bewildered by Dominion Resources Inc.’s latest plans to upgrade a natural gas pipeline compressor station in Loudoun County, Va., less than two years after the company promised no new compressor expansions in the area would be forthcoming. The...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 19, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
After eight years of being banished and sometimes vilified by the Obama administration, the fossil fuel industry is enjoying a remarkable resurgence as its executives and lobbyists shape President-elect Donald Trump’s policy agenda and staff his administration. The...
