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Virginia regulators just rejected Dominion’s long-range resource plan

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 10, 2018 | Economic Impacts

The SCC gave the utility 90 days to correct and refile an integrated resource plan based on PJM forecasts. Virginia utility regulators took the unprecedented action Friday of ordering Dominion Energy to totally redo a long-term energy plan it submitted for approval in...

Big company, big dollars, small community: Dominion deal sparks dissent in community facing gas project

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 9, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Events, Regulatory Permit Process

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Chad Oba huddled on a narrow median strip, bundled against the falling snow. Passing cars honked at the sign she was holding, and behind her a crowd of fellow protesters chanted outside the local office of Dominion Energy as police stood watch. For...

Pipeline construction suspended, again

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 9, 2018 | Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process

MONTEREY — Following a court order today, Dec. 7, Dominion filed notice with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that it is suspending construction along the entirety of the 600-mile route of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline, except as needed for safety and...

How money stokes divide of historic black community in Virginia pipeline battle

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 7, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice, Regulatory Permit Process

Neighbors and families are pitted against one another over a natural gas pipeline project in Union Hill. In the end, who stands to lose? ‘Dominion thought they can just come in and we’d all roll over,’ said Ruby Laury, a cattle farmer with her...

The Power Behind the Pipelines: Atlantic Coast Pipeline

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 30, 2018 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy

Oldies but goodies: June 2017. Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC is proposing the approximately 600-mile unidirectional, open access Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) to transport Marcellus-Utica shale gas from West Virginia, through Virginia, and ending in North Carolina....
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