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Buppert and Sanner column: Construction of Atlantic Coast Pipeline will destroy lands, endanger state’s waters

by Nelson Bailey | Oct 10, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy

Protesters gathered at the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality office in Harrisonburg last month to speak out against the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines. DAILY NEWS-RECORD VIA The Associated Press Families in Virginia should not have to worry...

Historic Union Hill Community Threatened By Atlantic Coast Pipeline

by Nelson Bailey | Oct 10, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Natural Gas

Buckingham County, VA – Earlier this month, activists kayaked the James River along the planned route of Dominion Energy’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). The pipeline route goes from West Virginia to North Carolina with plans to connect it to the Transco line, also in...

Dominion official causes stir among pipeline opponents with talk of extension into South Carolina

by Nelson Bailey | Sep 30, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy

Opponents question level of demand in Virginia and North Carolina. Opposition to the massive Atlantic Coast Pipeline is intensifying after an executive with Dominion Energy, the primary developer of the project, told an industry audience that the pipeline will likely...

Leech: We don’t need either pipeline

by Nelson Bailey | Sep 21, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety, Politics of energy

Leech lives in Elliston and teaches consumer studies at Virginia Tech. “The two pipeline — one route alternative,” (Sept. 14 commentary) clearly was written by someone who only cares about western Virginia and is willing to dump on the part he doesn’t live in. He has...

Pressing need to ‘increase profits’

by Nelson Bailey | Sep 20, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Natural Gas, Pipelines

Despite claims by the builders of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), the public interest will be best served if the ACP is not built.  If the existing pipeline is used according to the 20-year agreements already in place to provide natural gas to Dominion...
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