by Nelson Bailey | May 27, 2017 | Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam, under pressure from environmentalists to oppose two natural gas pipelines, told voters for weeks that he had won assurances from state regulators that they will increase scrutiny on the projects by assessing...
by Nelson Bailey | May 25, 2017 | Press Releases
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has reversed itself, saying that the state agency will not require specific water quality impact analysis for water crossings for the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP)....
by Nelson Bailey | May 24, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
The Consumer Energy Alliance, a front group for oil and gas interests and utilities including Dominion Energy Inc, has released a poll which it claims shows support for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a gas pipeline co-owned by Dominion. The poll claims to show that a...
by Nelson Bailey | May 24, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality admitted Wednesday that it provided inaccurate information nearly seven weeks ago about how it plans to handle review of potential water quality impacts of two deeply controversial natural gas transmission...
by Nelson Bailey | May 24, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
A common refrain among Virginian legislators is that there is nothing they can do to stop Dominion’s proposed Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines (ACP and MVP, respectively). As they tell it, “The pipelines are a matter for FERC,” and that’s the...
