by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 15, 2018 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC is proposing the approximately 600-mile unidirectional, open access Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) to transport Marcellus-Utica shale gas from West Virginia, through Virginia, and ending in North Carolina. Four energy corporations –...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 12, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
The Transco Pipeline cuts through the forests of Buckingham County and crosses Route 56 in the foreground. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline will pass through Buckingham and connect to this pipeline, and a compressor station will be built at the intersection. Timothy...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 9, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
Dominion Energy is offering $5.1 million for a package of improvements — including expanded emergency services and a new community center — for a predominantly African-American community next to the site of a natural gas compressor station Dominion is proposing in...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 7, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
Pastor Paul Wilson’s Union Hill Baptist Church in Buckingham County is very near Dominion’s proposed compressor station site. 2015, TIMES-DISPATCH A year ago this week, then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe took an important step in creating the state’s first Advisory Council on...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 2, 2018 | Economic Impacts, Politics of energy
Ken Cuccinelli, a Republican, served as Virginia’s attorney general from 2010 to 2014. In Shipman, Va., a family that has held its homestead for generations, tending graves of ancestors and buildings erected by great-great grandfathers, struggles to understand why it...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 25, 2018 | Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
It can’t be said enough, and it’s something that’s easy to lose sight of amid the labyrinthine legal and permitting debates around the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which could be getting federal approval to start full construction in Virginia any minute now. The need for...
