by Nelson Bailey | Nov 2, 2016 | Events, Pipelines
Friends of Nelson is hosting the first ever Property Rights Revival in Nelson County on Sunday, November 6, under a big tent outside the Rockfish Valley Community Center. The revival will feature “testimony” from property owners along the route of the Atlantic Coast...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 2, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines, Spiritual Ecology
President Obama today said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering rerouting the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is being built near the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s reservation in North Dakota. “We’re monitoring this closely,” Obama said in an interview...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 2, 2016 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Briefly – WSJ A major fuel artery connecting refineries on the Gulf Coast to airports and gas stations on the East Coast was closed Monday, sending gasoline prices surging higher. Equipment being used by a work crew struck one of the lines in Shelby County,...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 1, 2016 | Accidents, Pipelines
HELENA, Ala. — An explosion along the Colonial Pipeline in rural Alabama killed one worker and injured several others Monday not far from where the line burst and leaked thousands of gallons of gasoline last month, authorities said.Colonial Pipeline Co. said in...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 1, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Pipelines
What They Say vs What They Do by Ellen Bouton A DCMediaGroup article on October 27, 2016, reports that Loudoun County lawmakers and officials “are bewildered by Dominion Resources Inc.’s latest plans to upgrade a natural gas pipeline compressor station in...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 31, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Natural Gas, Pipelines
Though planners took no action on a special use permit request for Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC (ACP) to construct a proposed 53,515 horsepower natural gas fired compressor station on Route 56 between Shelton Store and Union Hill roads, the Buckingham County Planning...
