by Nelson Bailey | Oct 2, 2016 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Eighty-three-year-old Hazel Palmer could become the Suzette Kelo of Virginia — the face of a property-rights revolution. She has a piece of land in Augusta County along the proposed route of the 600-mile, $5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline. It has been in her...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 2, 2016 | Accidents, Environmental Justice, Health & Safety, Pipelines
On a routine check of a surface coal mining facility in rural Alabama early this month, inspector Randall Aldridge first smelled gasoline. Then he saw dead plants and animals along a man-made pond that helps the region manage heavy rain. The cause had nothing to do...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 28, 2016 | Accidents, Compressor Stations
USGS Shakemap Aug. 23, 2011 Virginia Earthquake (USGS) On Aug. 23, 2011, those living in eastern North America, from Ontario to Georgia, felt an unexpected shock as the earth trembled in the wake of a 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck near the town of Mineral,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 27, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
Protesters hoped a federal judge would halt the controversial Dakota Access pipeline being built across the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. Aug 25, 2016 by Lisa Song with Inside Climate News. Activists resisting a controversial oil pipeline in a growing...
by Kenda Hanuman | Aug 13, 2016 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
MORTON COUNTY — A movie star on Thursday joined the largest protest yet to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from crossing the Missouri River near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Source: Movie star joins pipeline protest as 10 arrested in heavily policed...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 11, 2016 | Environmental Justice, For Landowners
Published 3:03 pm Thursday, July 7, 2016 Farmville Herald by Jordan Miles A Buckingham County landowner says Dominion violated its own agreed-to survey process in work on the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline while the firm contents it followed the policy. Quinn...
