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Environmental groups seek stay to halt construction of Mountain Valley Pipeline
As construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline draws closer, a coalition of environmental groups is asking a federal appeals court to issue a stay that would stop the project in its tracks. Filed late Monday, the motion argues that a court-ordered delay is needed to...
Augusta County Reviews Proposal for Dominion Energy Construction Yard
An Augusta County board is reviewing a proposal by Dominion Energy to build a construction yard for its Atlantic Coast Pipeline on 34 acres of farmland near Churchville. Pipeline opponents are rallying against the proposed site. The energy company needs to get a...
Pipeline’s been a sham from the beginning
My blood is boiling after reading “Bad vibrations” in the Dec. 19 issue. The article details the noise problems for some residents of Manor Township caused by nonstop drilling under the Conestoga River for the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline. The Federal Energy Regulatory...
Keeping up the fight in the pipeline age of Nelson
Deborah Kushner knows firsthand how a date, person or event can serve as a defining moment, splitting life into “before” and “after.” ForKushner, a resident of eastern Nelson County andher Nelson neighbors, that milestone is the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. There was...
OPINION: It’s not too late — join the fight against pipeline
The threats pipelines pose are numerous and extremely serious. Pipeline incidents have res ulted in over 500 deaths, nearly 3,000 injuries, and over $8.5 billion in financial costs from 1986 to 2016. Just this month, about 5,000 barrels of oil, or about 210,000...
Before Building a $400 Million Pipeline, Make Sure Your Neighbors Are On Board
Sempra’s natural-gas deliveries halted by indigenous group It’s deja-vu for Mexican planners beset by local opposition A chunk of Sempra Energy’s natural gas pipeline sits in the dirt behind a community center in the village of Loma de Bacum in northwest Mexico....
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: For Sunday, Dec. 17
Will Dominion be the DuPont of 2042? While I was excited to read that decades of hard fought battles are resulting in the grants that Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced for Waynesboro last week, it’s sad to think that DuPont, the very “jobs lifeline” of this area for so...
Lost property value just another form of Dominion theft
Are we surprised? On Thursday, November 23rd, John Bruce reported in The Recorder, Highland County’s newspaper, that “land values near Dominion’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline have dropped substantially in anticipation of construction next year." This was not...
Dominion Energy Arguing to Use Eminent Domain for Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Quinn Robinson A "NO PIPELINE" button on Quinn Robinson's jacket Kenda Hanuman Anti-pipeline sign in Buckingham County BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) -Dominion Energy is beginning the process to take land to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline through central Virginia...
Nearly 1,000 Wintergreen Property Owners To Sue Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Friends of Wintergreen announced today that nearly 1,000 Wintergreen property owners plan to individually sue the Atlantic Coast Pipeline for damages to their property if the pipeline company seizes land used by the Wintergreen community. These actions follow a rare...