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 5, 2016 | FERC communications, Politics of energy
Posted: Monday, October 3, 2016 2:00 am Maybe it is time for FERC to listen to outside experts and not just rely on its staff, which love to rubber-stamp “Approval” for all pipelines? Synapse Energy Economics, Inc., a leading international research and...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 29, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events
About 150 people came to a meeting of the Buckingham County Planning Commission Monday to protest Dominion’s plan for a compressor station that would push natural gas through the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Sandy Hausman reports on why area residents are worried and what...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 28, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events
There will be a Public Hearing with the Buckingham Planning Commission for a special use zoning permit for the proposed ACP compressor station on Monday September 26, at 7 pm in the Administration Building on Rt 60 in Buckingham Courthouse [the name of the town, not...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 27, 2016 | Compressor Stations
Farmville Herald Thursday August 25, 2016 A public hearing is set for 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 26, regarding a potential 53,515 horsepower (hp) compressor station in Buckingham County — part of a 600-mile natural gas pipeline proposed by Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP)...