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...
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...
