by Nelson Bailey | Aug 11, 2017 | Events, Health & Safety
ARRISONBURG – Before heading into James Madison University’s Festival Conference & Student Center on Monday evening, opponents and supporters of the proposed 600-mile, three-state Atlantic Coast Pipeline traded shouts across the lawn. As they held colorful signs...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 11, 2017 | Events
David Paylor, director of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, listened Thursday afternoon to residents of a small community in Giles County who are destined to live in a “high consequence area” if the Mountain Valley Pipeline project moves...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 10, 2017 | Press Releases
One of the state’s most influential corporations and 35 banks hope to make money from the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Business and labor groups have lined up behind it, as has Virginia’s governor, but opponents say it’s not a done deal. They plan to fight the...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 10, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality, which is using a Mechanicsville-based environmental consulting firm to review the reams of plans that lay out how a pair of massive pending pipeline projects will manage erosion, sediment and stormwater during and after...
by Nelson Bailey | Aug 8, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
There’s something magical about standing in a place and realizing that in every direction you look, there are mountains. It’s as if you’re sitting in a natural fortress, or a protected oasis. Walking on the soil that is slated to be uprooted by the Atlantic Coast...
