by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 22, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Four actions: Call & write your legislators. Sign the 2 petitions below. Recent decisions by the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to allow the Corps of Engineers to review the water body crossings as part of the Nationwide 12 permit process does not...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 22, 2017 | Natural Gas, Pipelines
June 21, 2017 Tom Hadwin, a former utility executive at Consumers Energy in Michigan and New York State Electric and Gas, explains the way Dominion and Duke Energy have manufactured a false need for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline by over-estimating future demand. SELC,...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 22, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Are You SAFE? That all depends on how close you live to the proposed pipeline route and the direction of the wind. First of all, the Nexus proposed pipeline is NOT a little 6″ line that brings gas to your house. This is a massive 36″ diameter gas transmission line...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 22, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) and Piedmont Natural Gas want state regulators to approve an extension of gas purchase agreements they made with the Atlantic Coast Pipeline that are set to expire June 30. The agreements, signed in April 2014, can be terminated on that date...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 20, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
The federal agency that governs interstate natural gas pipelines is scheduled to release its final environmental impact statement on the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline on Friday. No one should be surprised by what it has to say. Friday’s document will set the clock...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 18, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality confirmed last week that past approaches to reviewing utility projects would not suffice for analyzing the potential environmental impacts of two 42-inch diameter natural gas pipelines that could burrow through the state....