by Nelson Bailey | Oct 6, 2016 | Environmental Justice, Press Releases
By ALI ROCKETT Richmond Times-Dispatch Twenty-three people were arrested Wednesday for trespassing in front of the Executive Mansion following a peaceful, three-day protest urging Gov. Terry McAuliffe to reject a pair of proposed fracked-gas pipelines, require power...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 2, 2016 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Eighty-three-year-old Hazel Palmer could become the Suzette Kelo of Virginia — the face of a property-rights revolution. She has a piece of land in Augusta County along the proposed route of the 600-mile, $5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline. It has been in her...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 26, 2016 | Pipelines
By MICHAEL MARTZ Richmond Times-Dispatch Steel pipe will begin rolling off a production line next month for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, but a Dominion-led development company is still awaiting federal review of a newly revised route for the proposed 600-mile project....
by Kenda Hanuman | Feb 23, 2016 | For Landowners, Pipelines
Natural gas pipeline opponents asked the Virginia Supreme Court on Tuesday to accept their case to determine whether a state law that allows surveyors onto private property without permission runs afoul of Virginia’s constitution. Source: Pipeline foes argue property...
by Kenda Hanuman | Jan 25, 2016 | Climate Change, Pipelines
‘This business of driving stakes through the heart of one project after another is exhausting,’ writes McKibben. (Photo: via Earth Island Journal) When I was a kid, I was creepily fascinated by the wrongheaded idea, current in my grade school, that...
