by Nelson Bailey | Dec 28, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
The threats pipelines pose are numerous and extremely serious. Pipeline incidents have res ulted in over 500 deaths, nearly 3,000 injuries, and over $8.5 billion in financial costs from 1986 to 2016. Just this month, about 5,000 barrels of oil, or about 210,000...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 14, 2017 | Fracking, Health & Safety
WASHINGTON—Fracking can affect drinking water supplies in certain circumstances, the Obama administration said in a long-awaited report issued Tuesday, leaving open the possibility of more widespread impacts that it says can’t be determined with current data. The...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 7, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
The proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline, already more than a year behind schedule, missed another deadline Wednesday when North Carolina regulators said they would not issue an environmental permit by Dec. 15 as had been expected. The N.C. Department of Environmental...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 28, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
As I look back over the past decade of my life, ever since the fossil fuel industry set its sights on PA’s Marcellus Shale, several memories stand in sharp relief against the blurred background of 1,000 remembered conversations, hearings, presentations, testimonies,...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 22, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Sierra Club is asking the Supreme Court of Virginia to require the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to review a key deal for shipping capacity on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The SCC has thus far declined to exercise its oversight authority over this arrangement,...
