by Nelson Bailey | May 20, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
The Rover pipeline is in trouble again, this time for storm water overflows on farm fields along its construction route. In a statement released Friday, Rover Pipeline officials responded to complaints from Ohio farmers regarding overflows that the company said are...
by Nelson Bailey | May 19, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Dominion Resources wants the public to think the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a done deal. So, in a classic “fake news” move, company execs held a tele-press conference yesterday where they basically said as much. They say they have obtained most of the land,...
by Nelson Bailey | May 18, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has curtailed work on a natural-gas pipeline in Ohio after the owner, Energy Transfer Partners, reported 18 leaks and spilled more than 2 million gallons of drilling materials. The pipeline regulator blocked Energy Transfer...
by Nelson Bailey | May 17, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Pipeline construction of Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 has caused three separate releases of drilling mud in May, with two incidents resulting in a combined total of 575 gallons of bentonite clay entering Chester Creek in Brookhaven, Delaware County, according to Sunoco...
by Nelson Bailey | May 17, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
(WBRE/WYOU) How far can the power of eminent domain go? A federal judge ruled in favor of a natural gas pipeline company that sought to take some land using that tactic this afternoon. Part of a 200-mile natural gas pipeline will soon be running through Ryan Regec...