by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 20, 2021 | Eminant Domain, For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
The Farmville Herald editor thinks the $3.5 that Dominion is giving to Buckingham is the right thing to do, that it is benevolent. Huh. Why would you have to say that – is there doubt that it is benevolent? See the article of Wednesday February 17. We think it...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 26, 2018 | Eminant Domain, Pipelines
ROANOKE, Va – A lawsuit involving the Mountain Valley Pipeline may be headed to our nation’s highest court. Wednesday, Virginia landowners filed a reply arguing their case does have merit to be heard after non-decisions by lower courts. They want to...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 14, 2018 | Eminant Domain, Pipelines
Local landowners ask the public to come to court to support cause ROANOKE – Federal court hearings were postponed Friday until a decision could be reached surrounding the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Court hearings continued Saturday at 9 a.m. in Roanoke at the...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 14, 2018 | Eminant Domain, Pipelines
Even as it asks a federal judge to allow it to run a natural gas pipeline through land it does not own, Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC is considering changes to the pipeline’s route. In October, the company invoked its power of eminent domain to seek easements on nearly...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 5, 2018 | Eminant Domain, Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
VERONA – The Augusta County Board of Zoning Appeals voted to delay making a decision Thursday on whether to issue the Atlantic Coast Pipeline a special use permit for a storage yard in Churchville. The proposal is to convert 34 acres of existing farmland on...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 18, 2017 | Eminant Domain, Uncategorized
by Jonathan Sokolow Every part of that headline is true – except, of course, the reference to Ralph Northam. Governor-Elect Northam’s 75-acre family farm on the Eastern Shore is far from the path of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and therefore safe from Dominion’s...
