by Nelson Bailey | Dec 24, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Politics of energy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. pipeline safety office is struggling to inspect natural gas storage sites and uphold other standards on the facilities, according to a report released by the General Accountability Office on Friday After a leak at...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 18, 2017 | Economic Impacts, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
To the editor: The front page of the Nov. 12 Herald-Mail reported on the rebuilding of the Conococheague Aqueduct in Williamsport, an $8.9 million project to enhance and promote tourism of the C&O Canal National Historical Park. Then, on Nov. 17 came the news...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 17, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
Will Dominion be the DuPont of 2042? While I was excited to read that decades of hard fought battles are resulting in the grants that Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced for Waynesboro last week, it’s sad to think that DuPont, the very “jobs lifeline” of this area for so...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 14, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
Are we surprised? On Thursday, November 23rd, John Bruce reported in The Recorder, Highland County’s newspaper, that “land values near Dominion’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline have dropped substantially in anticipation of construction next year.” This was not...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 14, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
BURLESON COUNTY, Texas – A Wednesday morning pipeline explosion and fire has been contained, but residents in two counties reported seeing the glow from the fire. The fire, burning along County Road 132 around two miles north of Middle Yegua Creek, was reported around...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 14, 2017 | Conservation, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Community activists and the energy company that plans to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are all trying to make sense of a state board’s conditional approval of a water quality permit for the project. It requires Dominion Energy provide final, more detailed...