by Nelson Bailey | Oct 11, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
The Roanoke County supervisors want more time for residents to respond to a report outlining potential environmental effects of the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline. The board passed a resolution Tuesday asking the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality to push...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 10, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Natural Gas
Buckingham County, VA – Earlier this month, activists kayaked the James River along the planned route of Dominion Energy’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). The pipeline route goes from West Virginia to North Carolina with plans to connect it to the Transco line, also in...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 4, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
Dominion Power says they’ve made no decision to expand the Atlantic Coast Pipeline into South Carolina. Last week the AP obtained a recording of Dominion executive Dan Weekly telling people at an energy conference that “everybody knows” the pipeline won’t stop in...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 29, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
The two joint ventures planning to route 42-inch diameter natural gas pipelines through forests and fields long to hear the whining roar and chatter of chainsaws felling trees. Both the Mountain Valley Pipeline and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline hope to start clearing...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 21, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
The pipeline would pass through eight watersheds and many fragile wetlands. DONALDSONVILLE, LOUISIANA — Tour guides like to call Bayou Lafourche “the longest Main Street in the world.” The sleepy 65-mile stretch of water once lined with slave plantations now passes...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 31, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
If you know where to look, you can spot them along the roadsides as you drive through the hilly farmland of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Short wooden stakes stand exactly 50 feet apart, topped with orange tape. The markers seem benign, but for many Lancaster...
