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...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 17, 2017 | Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
They landed, one after another, in 2015: plans for nearly a dozen interstate pipelines to move natural gas beneath rivers, mountains and people’s yards. Like spokes on a wheel, they’d spread from Appalachia to markets in every direction. Together these new...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 14, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines, Politics of energy
WEST WHITELAND, Pa. (CBS)–Some residents in Chester County are dealing with brown water flowing into their homes, and some have lost their well water completely. They blame a pipeline Sunoco is digging beneath their properties. David Mano showed CBS3 brown and cloudy...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 11, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
BENT MOUNTAIN, Va. (WDBJ7) Bent Mountain resident Kathy Chandler called police Monday morning when Mountain Valley Pipeline crews showed up ready to survey her land. “They were just here a month ago,” Chandler said. “We were just doing this a month...
