by Nelson Bailey | May 12, 2017 | Eminant Domain, Health & Safety
A Virginia State Police trooper asked a survey crew working Monday for Mountain Valley Pipeline to leave properties whose owners had not granted permission for the crews to study their land in Roanoke County for a possible pipeline route. The surveyors agreed to...
by Nelson Bailey | May 10, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
RICHMOND — Bill and Lynn Limpert rallied outside Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s Capitol Square offices Thursday with a poster-sized photo of themselves back home in rural Bath County, standing at the foot of a massive sugar maple. Measuring 12 feet around, the tree is part of...
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 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
May 2, 2017 COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new rule that would rein in methane pollution from natural gas and oil wells on public lands in Ohio and other states is facing an uncertain fate. The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Methane and Waste Reduction Rule was finalized...
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...
