by Nelson Bailey | Dec 17, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
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...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 14, 2017 | Conservation, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Community activists and the energy company that plans to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are all trying to make sense of a state board’s conditional approval of a water quality permit for the project. It requires Dominion Energy provide final, more detailed...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 13, 2017 | Events, Politics of energy
Environmental groups called it a win. Dominion Energy — which is leading the development of the hotly contested Atlantic Coast Pipeline — called it a “very significant milestone.” The 4-3 vote Tuesday by the State Water Control Board on a crucial water quality...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 13, 2017 | Eminant Domain, For Landowners, Politics of energy
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...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 7, 2017 | Newsletter, Politics of energy
NRDC recently commissioned an analysis from economists at the Applied Economics Clinic at Tufts University to dig into the repeated claim by project proponents that new interstate natural gas pipelines like the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) or Mountain Valley Pipeline...