by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 2, 2015 | Events, Pipelines
Wild Virginia presents Won’t Pipe Down, a film by four students at James Madison University, about a community’s fight against the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The film is 30 minutes long and will include a short Q&A with local activists as...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 26, 2015 | Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Natural Gas
“Fracking companies have had to pile up more and more debt to chase ever more elusive / expensive-to-extract gas in the shale formations to try to keep up with investors’ wildly inflated expectations formed when the first high-payoff, lower cost wells (the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 16, 2015 | For Landowners, Pipelines
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC (Atlantic) has adopted a route variation for the planned interstate natural gas transmission pipeline in Nelson and Buckingham counties to avoid a historically significant area that contains historic sites and buildings and may contain...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 15, 2015 | Compressor Stations, Fracking, Pipelines
Director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany David Carpenter, who participated as a researcher in the DEC’s fracking study, calls compressor stations among the worst of all the fracking infrastructure. Carpenter notes a...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 27, 2015 | Fossil Fuels
In recent years Americans have been hearing that the United States is poised to regain its role as the world’s premier oil and natural gas producer, thanks to the widespread use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). This “shale revolution,”...
