by Nelson Bailey | May 17, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Pipeline construction of Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 has caused three separate releases of drilling mud in May, with two incidents resulting in a combined total of 575 gallons of bentonite clay entering Chester Creek in Brookhaven, Delaware County, according to Sunoco...
by Nelson Bailey | May 16, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 My wife I drove down from Little Valley in Bath County to participate in the rally for our environment outside of the Dominion shareholders meeting Wednesday. Dominion’s attempt to screen us from the view of shareholders by placing curtains...
by Nelson Bailey | May 12, 2017 | Eminant Domain, Health & Safety
A Virginia State Police trooper asked a survey crew working Monday for Mountain Valley Pipeline to leave properties whose owners had not granted permission for the crews to study their land in Roanoke County for a possible pipeline route. The surveyors agreed to...
by Nelson Bailey | May 10, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Energy Transfer, the company building the Rover natural gas distribution pipeline, to pay $431,000 for water and air pollution violations at various locations across the state. In its order issued Friday, OEPA also...
by Nelson Bailey | May 2, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
May 2, 2017 COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new rule that would rein in methane pollution from natural gas and oil wells on public lands in Ohio and other states is facing an uncertain fate. The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Methane and Waste Reduction Rule was finalized...
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 28, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
In this exclusive video, taken by local activist and resident, Mitch Allen, Sabal Pipeline construction workers are seen excavating over one-thousand feet of pipeline in Wetland 034A (labeled in this FERC map) in Polk County and placing geotextile pipeline weights (or...
