by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 7, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
Pastor Paul Wilson’s Union Hill Baptist Church in Buckingham County is very near Dominion’s proposed compressor station site. 2015, TIMES-DISPATCH A year ago this week, then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe took an important step in creating the state’s first Advisory Council on...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 2, 2018 | Economic Impacts, Politics of energy
Ken Cuccinelli, a Republican, served as Virginia’s attorney general from 2010 to 2014. In Shipman, Va., a family that has held its homestead for generations, tending graves of ancestors and buildings erected by great-great grandfathers, struggles to understand why it...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 2, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice
A year ago this week, then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe took an important step in creating the state’s first Advisory Council on Environmental Justice. Heeding the principle that “protection of our natural resources applies equally to all individuals,” the council’s charge is...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 25, 2018 | Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
It can’t be said enough, and it’s something that’s easy to lose sight of amid the labyrinthine legal and permitting debates around the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which could be getting federal approval to start full construction in Virginia any minute now. The need for...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 19, 2018 | Economic Impacts, Regulatory Permit Process
Excellent papers on the economics of these pipelines. To Understand Pipeline Economics Follow the Money Excerpts from Comments to the SCC_Aug17-2018 Hadwin-Comments_Air-Quality-Permit-Buckingham-Compressor-Station You can also go to this site for more articles, which...