by Nelson Bailey | Aug 25, 2017 | Endangered Species, Health & Safety, Natural Gas, Politics of energy
By Letters to the Editor Editor: While the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is the primary regulator for approval of natural gas pipelines, Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is the responsible party for water protection. The Atlantic Coast...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 21, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Natural Gas
Neighbors Bob and Donna Jones and Tom and Bonnie Triplett share two strong feelings that sometimes dog their waking hours and bedevil their sleep: bewilderment and dread. Bewilderment because the couples, whose properties abut along Mt. Tabor Road in Montgomery...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 21, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
Pressure from state lawmakers in both parties, as well as from hundreds of people who showed up at a series of public hearings this month, is mounting on the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and state Water Control Board to slow or reconsider the water...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 3, 2017 | Natural Gas, Pipelines
n analysis by Mountain Valley Pipeline of the controversial project’s impacts on intact forests in Virginia underestimated those effects by more than 300 percent, according to an assessment by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and other state...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 3, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
To the Times: The decision by Middletown, Edgmont, Thornbury, Aston and other Delaware County township governments to not oppose the Mariner East 2 pipeline is one that might soon come back to haunt them. At best, their approvals demonstrate a disregard for the...
