by Nelson Bailey | Jul 8, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Pipelines
Around a dozen Chester County households experienced cloudy water or loss of supply from their private wells this week, forcing some families from their homes near a location where Sunoco Pipeline is conducting horizontal directional drilling about 150 feet below...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 7, 2017 | Events, Pipelines
About six people recently concluded a 150-mile walk across five counties along a portion of the planned 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) route at the intersection of Union Hill Road and Route 56 in Buckingham County. The event, which began June 17 and concluded...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 6, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety
A public relations firm for Sunoco Pipeline says it wants to “neutralize opposition” to the controversial Mariner East 2 pipeline project. Bravo Group, which has worked with different parts of Sunoco for at least five years, makes the statement on its website, in...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 6, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
Evidently, ensuring that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s 1,989 water-body crossings comply with Virginia’s water-quality standards is just too big a job for our Department of Environmental Quality, even if it is its job, so the Department of Environmental Quality handed...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 5, 2017 | Politics of energy, Press Releases
Virginia’s Director of Natural Resources has warned Dominion that state regulators will not be swayed by company requests or suggestions when deciding whether to issue permits for construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. That’s good news for pipeline opponents,...
