by Nelson Bailey | Aug 8, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
There’s something magical about standing in a place and realizing that in every direction you look, there are mountains. It’s as if you’re sitting in a natural fortress, or a protected oasis. Walking on the soil that is slated to be uprooted by the Atlantic Coast...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 8, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Politics of energy
HARRISONBURG – Before heading into James Madison University’s Festival Conference & Student Center on Monday evening, opponents and supporters of the proposed 600-mile, three-state Atlantic Coast Pipeline traded shouts across the lawn. As they held colorful signs...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 5, 2017 | Health & Safety, Regulatory Permit Process
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is currently planning to permit developers of the massive fracked-gas Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines to drive a gash through the headwaters, streams, and wetlands of six major river basins, including the...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 4, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
By Traci Hickson August 3, 2017 An area below compressor station construction site related to Rover Pipeline, where DEP inspectors say concentrated sediment runoff overwhelms the control fences that are being used by the company. If you think silt fences will hold...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 3, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
To the Times: The decision by Middletown, Edgmont, Thornbury, Aston and other Delaware County township governments to not oppose the Mariner East 2 pipeline is one that might soon come back to haunt them. At best, their approvals demonstrate a disregard for the...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 3, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Health & Safety
Last week, the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board issued an order halting the construction of the pipeline at 55 locations across the state. Cloudy water with an oily film poured out of a hose at Scavello’s Car Care in Exton, Pennsylvania, where Jeremy Garrison...
