by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 26, 2018 | Eminant Domain, Pipelines
ROANOKE, Va – A lawsuit involving the Mountain Valley Pipeline may be headed to our nation’s highest court. Wednesday, Virginia landowners filed a reply arguing their case does have merit to be heard after non-decisions by lower courts. They want to...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 9, 2018 | Pipelines
Mountain Valley Pipeline RICHMOND, Va. – Attorney General Mark Herring and the Department of Environmental Quality has filed a lawsuit against the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The filing sites repeated environmental violations in Craig, Franklin,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 15, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
I’ve lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains for most of my life, often taking for granted the hiking trails, swimming holes, trout streams, and breathtaking beauty. Growing up, I never paused to consider the fragility of our forest ecosystem. I also didn’t know much about...
by Nelson Bailey | Feb 1, 2018 | For Landowners, Fossil Fuels
With just a few hours remaining until Thursday, the day that Mountain Valley Pipeline had hoped to start work on a natural gas pipeline through Southwest Virginia, a judge put a pause to those plans. The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth Dillon came...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 14, 2018 | For Landowners, Pipelines
ALBANY — The Constitution Pipeline project is once again on hold after its petition was denied Thursday by the Federal Energy Regulation Commission. After being denied permits at the state level last year, the Constitution Pipeline had attempted to have...
