by Nelson Bailey | Jul 8, 2017 | Press Releases, Uncategorized
All, Today we heard good news in the fight against the massive fracked gas pipelines proposed for Virginia. The Department of Environmental Quality, under Governor Terry McAuliffe, has finally agreed to conduct individualized reviews of the Mountain Valley Pipeline...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is the family who owned Variety Shades, and sold a parcel to Dominion for the proposed compressor station site. I wanted to write a bit about the Variety Shade house that I knew as a child before it was torn down to prevent a fire that might burn down the nearby...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 26, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events, Uncategorized
Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC [ACP] has applied for a special use permit [SUP] for a proposed 53,000 + hp compressor station in an agricultural A-1 zone in the Woods Corner/Union Hill neighborhood on Rt 56, adjacent to the Transco pipeline. The Board of Supervisors will...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 20, 2016 | Pipelines, Uncategorized
Presidential politics and property rights take center stage as Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipeline opponents strategize post-election. In the Natural Bridge Hotel lobby before a pipeline summit in opposition to two planned fracked-gas pipelines, two words...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
A group of 18 major businesses, including big names such as Walmart, Best Buy, Ikea, Staples and Mars, Inc., have sent a letter sent to state lawmakers and the Virginia State Corporation Commission calling for “an explicit legal framework” to expand access...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 31, 2016 | Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process, Uncategorized
Posted: Monday, October 31, 2016 12:00 am By Duncan Adams duncan.adams@roanoke.com 981-3324 The “scoping meetings” in May 2015 included a few boisterous moments. That was true when a project manager for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission declared unequivocally...
