by Nelson Bailey | Nov 2, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued its second notice of violation in five days Monday against the builder of the Mariner East 2 natural gas liquids pipeline for problems involving waterways in Lebanon County. This one stemmed from a DEP...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 1, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
(Lebanon) — Mariner East 2 pipeline builder Sunoco needs to work harder to prevent “drilling mud” spills, not just treat them after the fact. That’s the gist of a notice of violation the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 29, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
CORRECTION: The date the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the Mountain Valley Pipeline is Oct. 13. The date was incorrect in an earlier version of the story. Mountain Valley Pipeline has filed a federal lawsuit against hundreds of landowners in Virginia...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 25, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
NAVARRE, Ohio (AP) — A sheriff’s office says a natural gas pipeline explosion in Ohio killed a man doing maintenance work. The explosion Monday killed a Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline worker and caused a large gas leak just south of Canton that forced...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 20, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine used the phrase “very suspicious circumstances” Monday to describe how a federal agency announced it had approved two deeply controversial natural gas pipelines that will burrow through different regions of Virginia. Kaine, a Democrat who was in...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 15, 2017 | Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
WAYNESBORO — Friday’s approval of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission generated predictable reactions from both those for and against the pipeline. FERC voted 2-1 to green light the 600-mile natural gas conduit, 55 miles of...
