by Nelson Bailey | May 10, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Energy Transfer, the company building the Rover natural gas distribution pipeline, to pay $431,000 for water and air pollution violations at various locations across the state. In its order issued Friday, OEPA also...
by Nelson Bailey | May 8, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
It’s been a tough few months for opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). First Donald Trump officially approved the $3.8 billion project. Then indigenous people were forced to clear out of the Oceti Sakowin and Sacred Stone protest camps. And with construction...
by Nelson Bailey | May 5, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
The scale of damage to mountain ridges in the path of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline remains open for debate, but Bill and Lynn Limpert say they have no doubt what the project would do to an old-growth forest along the mountain ridge facing their retirement home...
by Nelson Bailey | May 2, 2017 | Natural Gas, Pipelines
May 2, 2017 SEATTLE – The mother of all pipelines could be coming to the Northwest, and Native Americans in the region want their voices heard on the proposal. The Houston-based company, Kinder Morgan’s expanded TransMountain Pipeline would stretch from the...
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...
