by Nelson Bailey | Jun 8, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
In the latest example of gross negligence during the construction of a natural gas pipeline, construction workers for Florida Southeast Connection (FSC) Pipeline —which is the connecting pipeline that will eventually merge with the controversial Sabal Trail...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 8, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
New analysis uses coal-fired plants as guide for explaining pipeline’s life-cycle emissions. Given the crisis of global climate change, anti-fossil fuel activists have sought to draw attention to the climate impacts of extracting, transporting, and burning natural...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 8, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
Groups fighting Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline are suing the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality over its decision to certify that a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers “blanket” permit for the project will adequately protect water quality in the state. The...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 6, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Sierra Club and activist groups from Michigan and Ohio reque Grassroots and environmental groups want the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to stop Energy Transfer’s Rover Pipeline from using a drilling technique that recently caused the spillage of millions of...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 6, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
Rover is Energy Transfer’s $3.7 billion, 711-mile Marcellus/Utica natural gas pipeline that will run from PA, WV and eastern OH through OH into Michigan and eventually into Canada. On April 13, Rover workers experienced an “inadvertent return” of “horizontal...
