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Pipeline analysis dramatically underestimates forest impacts, state agencies report

by Nelson Bailey | Aug 3, 2017 | Natural Gas, Pipelines

n analysis by Mountain Valley Pipeline of the controversial project’s impacts on intact forests in Virginia underestimated those effects by more than 300 percent, according to an assessment by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and other state...

Pipeline analysis dramatically underestimates forest impacts, state agencies report

by Nelson Bailey | Aug 1, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines

An analysis by Mountain Valley Pipeline of the controversial project’s impacts on intact forests in Virginia underestimated those effects by more than 300 percent, according to an assessment by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and other state...

Augusta first county in Va. to ban fracking

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...

Suffolk woman fighting to keep Atlantic Coast Pipeline off her land

by Nelson Bailey | Jul 20, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines

SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Dominion Energy is moving full speed ahead with its Atlantic Coast Pipeline, but one Hampton Roads resident is saying, “Not in my backyard.” Paulette Johnson bought the property in Suffolk 10 years ago, and when she did, she had no thought even...

OPINION: Our Elected Officials and the Pipeline

by Nelson Bailey | Jul 20, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy

These last 3 years of fighting the approval of the Atlantic Coast pipeline, we have constantly heard from our elected officials that “there is nothing I can do” and “it’s a federal issue”.  I think it is time for them to step aside and make room for people who will...
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