by Nelson Bailey | Dec 28, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
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...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 28, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
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...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 20, 2017 | Economic Impacts, Fossil Fuels
Dominion and Duke Energy got more bad news about their controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline project this month, with North Carolina regulators announcing they would not issue the necessary air quality permit for a planned compressor station in Northampton County by...
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 Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 15, 2017 | Events, Regulatory Permit Process
Whitney Whiting’s Voice: Audio report “End of the Line” on WRIR 97.3 Richmond, an ongoing podcast about the pipeline struggles in the mid Atlantic and Virginia. Excellent coverage! Inside the State Water Control Board meetings for the Mountain Valley...
