by Nelson Bailey | Jun 15, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety
Supervisors in Buckingham tabled a special use permit for Dominion on Monday to construct a 195-foot microwave communications tower as part of its proposed 53,783-horsepower compressor station along the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project. The board’s...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 15, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
Discussions continue regarding memorandums of understanding (MOUs) that could result in Buckingham County having control and access to a natural gas tap off of a lateral line from the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project. “We talked a long time ago about...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 15, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
In what’s being hailed a ‘significant victory’ for pipeline’s opponents, a judge said he would consider whether operations must halt until assessment is redone A federal judge has handed a lifeline to efforts to block the Dakota Access pipeline, ruling Wednesday that...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 13, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ7) A Montgomery County group fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline now has the support of their local government to ask for help in protecting their water. Preserve Montgomery County asked the Board of Supervisors in their meeting Monday...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 13, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
A DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY in Virginia that shaped up as a contest between the party’s populist wing and its establishment has added a new twist: The state’s biggest power company is helping to get out the vote — and it isn’t hard to figure out why. The two Democrats in the...
