by Nelson Bailey | Aug 1, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
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 state...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 28, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
CAMBRIDGE — Eleven buildings were evacuated in Kendall Square on Friday morning, disrupting the workday routine for thousands of people, as officials scrambled to shut down a gas main that had been accidentally punctured by a contractor operating heavy equipment,...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 27, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
I’m glad to see that Dominion Energy is helping to sponsor native plantings along power line rights-of-way and in tiny Bluemont Park (“Encouraging Native Plants” July 5). It would be easier, however, to see Dominion’s ecological concern as sincere if the effort didn’t...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 25, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Health & Safety
Sunoco crews work in front of the valve station for the Mariner East 2 pipeline on Boot Road in West Goshen Tuesday. A judge shut down drilling operations for the project across all of Pennsylvania with a decision issued Tuesday. PETE BANNAN – DIGITAL FIRST MEDIA A...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 24, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
Thank heaven for Alabama Power! Were it not for them, Virginia would have, in Dominion Energy, the least energy efficient utility in the whole US. The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), which has long ranked states, cities and countries on their...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 24, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
In the upper reaches of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, Tim and Chris Camman walk daily through a thick wood, shaded by a canopy of tall hemlocks, white pines and hardwoods. Dappled sunlight filters through, with only the sounds of birds and Carrs Creek as it bubbles...