by Nelson Bailey | Jul 31, 2017 | Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
An analysis by Mountain Valley Pipeline of the controversial project’s impacts on intact forests in Virginia underestimated those effects by more than 300 percent, according to an assessment by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and other...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 31, 2017 | Fracking, Regulatory Permit Process
Two ranking Democrats in Congress have asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), to further investigate the practices of pipeline builder Energy Transfer Partners, which has merged with Sunoco Logistics, after spills and permit violations occurred on two...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 17, 2017 | Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
They landed, one after another, in 2015: plans for nearly a dozen interstate pipelines to move natural gas beneath rivers, mountains and people’s yards. Like spokes on a wheel, they’d spread from Appalachia to markets in every direction. Together these new...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 8, 2017 | FERC communications, Politics of energy
A federal agency issued its final environmental statement (EIS) on June 23 for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project. The release marked a major milestone, setting the stage for a decision from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) about whether the...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 25, 2017 | Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
The newly released statement denies long term damage. ROCKY MOUNT, Va. – Landowners and environmentalists speak out after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission releases new information about the Mountain Valley Pipeline. On Friday, June 23, FERC released an...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 25, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
Attempts by Dominion Energy to sway regulators in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline permitting process prompted a top official under Gov. Terry McAuliffe to notify the utility that state agencies would not heed those efforts. An April 19 letter from Molly Ward, Virginia’s...
