For Landowners
Dealing with Dominion
Please see the latest articles below or Contact Us if you have a specific question.
Pipelines: Va. Supreme Court upholds gas survey law on entering private property, but requires specific notice to landowners
The Supreme Court of Virginia has upheld a state law that allows natural gas companies to enter private property without landowner permission to survey the route of a potential pipeline, but also required the companies to notify landowners of specific dates when crews...
Judge rules family must leave property for pipeline construction
HUNTINGDON -- A Huntingdon County judge ruled this week that a family camped out on its own property has to vacate the premises to allow construction to continue for the Mariner East 2 Pipeline. Ellen Gerheart and her husband have owned the property that is now...
Pipeline protestors face arrest, charges on their own land
Responding to a request by Sunoco Logistics, a Huntingdon County judge has ordered a family and their supporters off the construction path of the Mariner East 2, which runs through their property. The ruling by Judge George Zanic means the family could be arrested on...
Supervisors table tower permit
Supervisors in Buckingham tabled a special use permit for Dominion on Monday to construct a 195-foot microwave communications tower as part of its proposed 53,783-horsepower compressor station along the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project. The board’s...
Montgomery County to ask Virginia DEQ to reconsider pipeline permit policy
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ7) A Montgomery County group fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline now has the support of their local government to ask for help in protecting their water. Preserve Montgomery County asked the Board of Supervisors in their meeting Monday...
Natural Gas Industry Brings A Fake Grassroots Group To Eastern Pipeline Fights
The industry-funded Your Energy is trying to mobilize a movement to counter pipeline protesters. Amid intensifying fights over new natural gas pipelines in Virginia, New Jersey and New England, the gas industry is ramping up its defense with a new front group meant...
Stalled Nexus pipeline to be subject of town hall meeting in Ann Arbor
Readers may recall our piece from March, about resistance to the proposed construction of the Nexus pipeline. The pipeline, in which DTE Energy is part owner, is essentially intended to carry natural gas fracked from the western Pennsylvania area to the Dawn Hub in...
Leech: ‘We deserve safety’
Everyone who lives within miles of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) should be concerned about safety. The company assures us that the ACP will be safe. However, most of the area through which the ACP passes is considered “low consequence” because there are...
Path of the Pipeline: Hazel Palmer
The Southern Environmental Law Center has just released the first in a series of short video clips profiling the impacts of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. I strongly commend to you this excellent video (under 4 minutes long)....
Mountain Valley Pipeline survey case reaches Roanoke courtroom
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ7) Representatives of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and landowners who oppose the controversial project met Friday in a Roanoke courtroom. The pipeline company was asking for an injunction that would allow surveying to resume on properties where crews...