by Nelson Bailey | Oct 23, 2016 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Human Rights Abuses Escalate at DAPL Prayer Services in North Dakota | Huffington Post “It makes me so sad. I want to feel like what we have been fighting for over the past hundred years is our dignity and that we as Indigenous people will be accorded full human...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 23, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety
Statewide poll results released today show that, on the hot-button issues of fracked-gas pipelines and coal ash disposal, Virginia voters disagree with the approach being taken by Governor Terry McAuliffe by significant, bipartisan margins. The results of the poll,...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 12, 2016 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
By Rob Manch – Reporter Published: October 11, 2016, 11:41 pm ROANOKE COUNTY (WSLS 10) – We’re hearing from a woman in Roanoke County who says without her knowledge or consent, she came home Monday to find dozens of surveyors for the Mountain Valley Pipeline on...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 11, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events, Pipelines
A 63-year-old Buckingham County pastor and found- ing member of a group opposed to a 600-mile natural gas pipeline was arrested and charged with trespass- ing last week after protesting the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline and compressor station. Paul Wilson, pastor...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 2, 2016 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Eighty-three-year-old Hazel Palmer could become the Suzette Kelo of Virginia — the face of a property-rights revolution. She has a piece of land in Augusta County along the proposed route of the 600-mile, $5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline. It has been in her...
