by Nelson Bailey | Nov 28, 2017 | Politics of energy, Spiritual Ecology
In April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested as part of the Birmingham Campaign, an effort to bring national attention to systemic racism in one of America’s most segregated cities. As he sat in a jail cell, King wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail,...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 27, 2017 | Accidents, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
(Reuters) – TransCanada Corp’s (TRP.TO) existing Keystone pipeline has leaked substantially more oil, and more often, in the United States than indicated in risk assessments the company provided to regulators before the project began operating in 2010, according...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 22, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Sierra Club is asking the Supreme Court of Virginia to require the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to review a key deal for shipping capacity on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The SCC has thus far declined to exercise its oversight authority over this arrangement,...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 22, 2017 | Endangered Species, Pipelines
State law enforcement officials told legislators Thursday that they’re expecting “outside agitators” to come to North Carolina in the coming months to protest the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The comments came during a presentation about the N.C....
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 17, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
See opinion: The Farmville Herald – 11.16.2017