by Nelson Bailey | Dec 20, 2017 | Economic Impacts, Fossil Fuels
Dominion and Duke Energy got more bad news about their controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline project this month, with North Carolina regulators announcing they would not issue the necessary air quality permit for a planned compressor station in Northampton County by...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 14, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
BURLESON COUNTY, Texas – A Wednesday morning pipeline explosion and fire has been contained, but residents in two counties reported seeing the glow from the fire. The fire, burning along County Road 132 around two miles north of Middle Yegua Creek, was reported around...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 14, 2017 | Conservation, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Community activists and the energy company that plans to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are all trying to make sense of a state board’s conditional approval of a water quality permit for the project. It requires Dominion Energy provide final, more detailed...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 14, 2017 | Fracking, Health & Safety
WASHINGTON—Fracking can affect drinking water supplies in certain circumstances, the Obama administration said in a long-awaited report issued Tuesday, leaving open the possibility of more widespread impacts that it says can’t be determined with current data. The...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 12, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
By Alfonso Lopez and Sam Rasoul Lopez and Rasoul are both Democratic members of the House of Delegates. Lopez is from Arlington. Rasoul is from Roanoke. As the State Water Control Board is scheduled to take up certification of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, it’s...
