by Nelson Bailey | Jun 12, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
On May 12, just weeks before Democrats and Republicans in Virginia will vote in primaries for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, Thomas Farrell, the head of Dominion Energy, Inc. sent a letter to its 76,000 current and retired employees and...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 8, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
Groups fighting Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline are suing the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality over its decision to certify that a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers “blanket” permit for the project will adequately protect water quality in the state. The...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 6, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Sierra Club and activist groups from Michigan and Ohio reque Grassroots and environmental groups want the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to stop Energy Transfer’s Rover Pipeline from using a drilling technique that recently caused the spillage of millions of...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 6, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
Rover is Energy Transfer’s $3.7 billion, 711-mile Marcellus/Utica natural gas pipeline that will run from PA, WV and eastern OH through OH into Michigan and eventually into Canada. On April 13, Rover workers experienced an “inadvertent return” of “horizontal...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 6, 2017 | For Landowners, Video & Audio
The Southern Environmental Law Center has just released the first in a series of short video clips profiling the impacts of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. I strongly commend to you this excellent video (under 4 minutes...
