by Nelson Bailey | Feb 1, 2018 | Accidents, Fossil Fuels
Noble County, OH — First responders were on the scene of a pipeline explosion and fire in Noble County early Wednesday morning. Officials say the incident happened around 2:30 a.m. about 3 miles north of Summerfield along State Route 513. The pipeline has been...
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 28, 2018 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
KIMBERLY PAYNTER / WHYY Mariner East 2 construction site in Edgemont Township, Delaware County. The federal pipeline regulator has issued a notice of probable violation to Sunoco after discovering flawed sections of pipe on a section of the route in Ohio. A section of...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 21, 2018 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
Duke Energy and other advocates for building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline have come up with a peculiar new justification for the $5 billion project – climate change. They say this winter’s record-setting run of sub-freezing temperatures led to a spike in natural gas...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 18, 2018 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
The Rover pipeline, owned and operated by Energy Transfer Partners, has spilled 150,000 gallons of drilling fluid into wetlands near the Tuscarawas River in Stark County, Ohio. Last April, the pipeline spilled 2 million gallons in the same area. The pipeline, which...
