by Nelson Bailey | Dec 14, 2017 | Conservation, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Community activists and the energy company that plans to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are all trying to make sense of a state board’s conditional approval of a water quality permit for the project. It requires Dominion Energy provide final, more detailed...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 14, 2017 | Fracking, Health & Safety
WASHINGTON—Fracking can affect drinking water supplies in certain circumstances, the Obama administration said in a long-awaited report issued Tuesday, leaving open the possibility of more widespread impacts that it says can’t be determined with current data. The...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 13, 2017 | Eminant Domain, For Landowners, Politics of energy
Quinn Robinson A “NO PIPELINE” button on Quinn Robinson’s jacket Kenda Hanuman Anti-pipeline sign in Buckingham County BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) -Dominion Energy is beginning the process to take land to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline through...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 7, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Politics of energy
EDDY COUNTY, New Mexico – A pipeline explosion south of Carlsbad prompted evacuations early Wednesday morning. (Photo: Makayla Viehweg) People are back home, but talk about a wild morning. Makayla Viehweg lives about a mile away from where the explosion...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 7, 2017 | Newsletter, Politics of energy
NRDC recently commissioned an analysis from economists at the Applied Economics Clinic at Tufts University to dig into the repeated claim by project proponents that new interstate natural gas pipelines like the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) or Mountain Valley Pipeline...
