by Nelson Bailey | Oct 13, 2016 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Natural Gas
alerting public WRITTEN BYJim Pierobon12 hours ago PHOTO BY Jim Pierobon / Southeast Energy News A Virginia natural gas pipeline operator says is revisiting its notification procedures after a routine maintenance incident prompted more than 100 emergency calls and...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 10, 2016 | Health & Safety
BY MARCUS STERN AND SEBASTIAN JONES SEP 11, 2013 Jeffrey Wiese (center), PHMSA’s associate administrator for pipeline safety, testifies at a hearing on pipeline safety. Credit: Rep. Gus Bilirakis Jeffrey Wiese, the nation’s top oil and gas pipeline safety...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Bio-Solids, Sludge, Health & Safety
Synagro is the private company that distributes the sludge for the wastewater treatment plants which are owned by the state. In Virginia There was a lawsuit involving Synagro’s spreading 1 million gallons of hog waste material from Smithfield’s lagoons. The lawsuit...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Bio-Solids, Sludge, Health & Safety
US EPA’s 503 sludge rule (1993) allows treated sewage sludges, aka biosolids, to be land-applied to farms, forests, parks, school playgrounds, home gardens and other private and public lands. According to a recent EPA survey, biosolids contain a wide range of...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice
Buckingham County faces the irony of being the only Virginia county already targeted for geometrically higher climate change and environmental health impacts to a front-line community from the sole 68 acre industrial complex compressor station, that is also targeted...
