by Nelson Bailey | May 17, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
(WBRE/WYOU) How far can the power of eminent domain go? A federal judge ruled in favor of a natural gas pipeline company that sought to take some land using that tactic this afternoon. Part of a 200-mile natural gas pipeline will soon be running through Ryan Regec...
by Nelson Bailey | May 12, 2017 | Eminant Domain, Health & Safety
A Virginia State Police trooper asked a survey crew working Monday for Mountain Valley Pipeline to leave properties whose owners had not granted permission for the crews to study their land in Roanoke County for a possible pipeline route. The surveyors agreed to...
by Nelson Bailey | May 10, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
RICHMOND — Bill and Lynn Limpert rallied outside Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s Capitol Square offices Thursday with a poster-sized photo of themselves back home in rural Bath County, standing at the foot of a massive sugar maple. Measuring 12 feet around, the tree is part of...
by Nelson Bailey | May 2, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Natural Gas, Pipelines
Landowners and activists expected to descend on town of York on Wednesday for first public meeting on proposed construction after Trump revived it Life on the Keystone XL route: where opponents fear the ‘black snake’ Keystone XL: fear and enthusiasm fill the plains of...
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 25, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
March 26, 2017 In May of 2016 the Wayne Land and Mineral Group (WLMG) filed suit in federal court challenging the authority of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) to regulate natural gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin (DRB). DCS responded with an Amicus...