by Nelson Bailey | Sep 18, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
WEST CHESTER >> State Sen. Andy Dinniman said Wednesday that he would appeal the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP’s) denial of his Right-to-Know Request to obtain a list of private groundwater wells located near the path of Sunoco Pipeline’s Mariner...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 18, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Politics of energy
If Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe’s Department of Environmental Quality continues its present course, it will likely suffer the same embarrassment. As public attention was focused on the destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey and the unfolding disaster of...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 16, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
THERE IS AMPLE cause for caution and care when it comes to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the proposed 600-mile conduit that would bring natural gas from Harrison County, W.Va., to Virginia and North Carolina. The route floated by the partnership of energy companies...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 13, 2017 | Accidents, Endangered Species, Fossil Fuels
Enbridge’s Line 3 in Minnesota just took a serious hit. Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 project — an effort to replace and expand an oil sands pipeline through Minnesota — hit a roadblock Monday when the state’s Department of Commerce said that the project is...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 12, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
Federal, state and local authorities are investigating the cause of Saturday’s natural gas pipeline explosion that killed five adults and five children and left two other people in critical condition in southeast New Mexico. The victims, members of two extended...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 12, 2017 | Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
Firms leading the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project have asked the members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) — the body that could give the project the green light — to “issue an order approving the ACP certificate in September so that...