by Nelson Bailey | Nov 10, 2016 | Environmental Justice, Spiritual Ecology
http://www.buckinghamcountyva.org/Planning%20Commission%20Packets/2016/PC%20P By-Laws Article 1-Objectives 1-1. The Buckingham County Planning Commission was established in conformance with aresolution adopted by the Buckingham County Board of Supervisors on February...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 31, 2016 | Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process, Uncategorized
Posted: Monday, October 31, 2016 12:00 am By Duncan Adams duncan.adams@roanoke.com 981-3324 The “scoping meetings” in May 2015 included a few boisterous moments. That was true when a project manager for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission declared unequivocally...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 29, 2016 | Coal
By ROBERT ZULLO Richmond Times-Dispatch Dominion Virginia Power has asked the state Department of Environmental Quality to put the brakes, at least temporarily, on the permitting process that will govern the closing of its Chesapeake coal-ash landfill and ponds, which...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 27, 2016 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
Guards for North Dakota pipeline could be charged for using dogs on activists | US news | The Guardian Private security guards who deployed dogs on protesters at a North Dakota oil pipeline demonstration were not properly licensed and could face criminal charges,...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 22, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety, Uncategorized
BILLINGS, Mont. – New federal rules proposed for pipelines that carry oil and other hazardous liquids could have prevented more than 200 accidents since 2010, including a Michigan rupture that ranks as the costliest onshore spill in U.S. history, federal...