by Nelson Bailey | Sep 29, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
The two joint ventures planning to route 42-inch diameter natural gas pipelines through forests and fields long to hear the whining roar and chatter of chainsaws felling trees. Both the Mountain Valley Pipeline and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline hope to start clearing...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 22, 2017 | Regulatory Permit Process
Legal experts predict New York environmental regulators will appeal decision. Federal energy regulators undercut a New York environmental agency Friday, allowing a pipeline company to go forward with a project the state had previously blocked. The Federal Energy...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 21, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
The pipeline would pass through eight watersheds and many fragile wetlands. DONALDSONVILLE, LOUISIANA — Tour guides like to call Bayou Lafourche “the longest Main Street in the world.” The sleepy 65-mile stretch of water once lined with slave plantations now passes...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 18, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Politics of energy
If Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe’s Department of Environmental Quality continues its present course, it will likely suffer the same embarrassment. As public attention was focused on the destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey and the unfolding disaster of...
by Nelson Bailey | Sep 13, 2017 | Accidents, Endangered Species, Fossil Fuels
Enbridge’s Line 3 in Minnesota just took a serious hit. Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 project — an effort to replace and expand an oil sands pipeline through Minnesota — hit a roadblock Monday when the state’s Department of Commerce said that the project is...