by Nelson Bailey | Oct 23, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events, Pipelines
At last month’s planning commission meeting in Buckingham County, so many people signed up to speak about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline that a second meeting was created just to continue the public comments. WMRA’s Jordy Yager was there. On an unseasonably warm October...
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 21, 2016 | Climate Change, Compressor Stations, Health & Safety
Natural gas, a clean-burning fuel, has significant potential as a “bridge fuel” on a path to a sustainable energy future. However, its climate benefits are highly dependent upon the emission rate of methane from the nation’s vast natural gas infrastructure. Colorado...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 20, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Though Buckingham County Planning Commission members completed its hours-long, two-part public hearing — split because of the volume of people who signed up to speak — they most likely will not vote during its regular Monday meeting on a permit request for a 53,515...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 19, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Natural Gas, Pipelines
Published 2:06 pm Tuesday, October 18, 2016 Twenty-one of 23 people who spoke during a continued public hearing Monday night regarding the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project and a connected compressor station opposed the issuance of a special use permit....
