by Nelson Bailey | Aug 1, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
An 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 | Jul 31, 2017 | Fracking, Regulatory Permit Process
Two ranking Democrats in Congress have asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), to further investigate the practices of pipeline builder Energy Transfer Partners, which has merged with Sunoco Logistics, after spills and permit violations occurred on two...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 30, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
The company behind the Keystone XL pipeline has not yet determined whether there is enough demand for the project to justify actually building it, a top executive said today. It was the strongest acknowledgment from TransCanada to date that the nearly decade-long...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 22, 2017 | Fracking, Health & Safety
VERONA – The Augusta County Board of Supervisors voted Wednesday night to prohibit fracking in the county in a move to keep clean water flowing in the area. Augusta is the first county in the commonwealth to pass a zoning ordinance that completely prohibits...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 19, 2017 | Press Releases
Approximately twenty people arrived at the Forest Service’s Supervisor Office on Valleypointe Parkway in Roanoke Monday morning to demand a meeting with the supervisor of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, Joby Timm. The group of residents and...
