by Nelson Bailey | May 19, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Dominion Resources wants the public to think the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a done deal. So, in a classic “fake news” move, company execs held a tele-press conference yesterday where they basically said as much. They say they have obtained most of the land,...
by Nelson Bailey | May 17, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines
(WBRE/WYOU) How far can the power of eminent domain go? A federal judge ruled in favor of a natural gas pipeline company that sought to take some land using that tactic this afternoon. Part of a 200-mile natural gas pipeline will soon be running through Ryan Regec...
by Nelson Bailey | May 12, 2017 | Eminant Domain, Health & Safety
A Virginia State Police trooper asked a survey crew working Monday for Mountain Valley Pipeline to leave properties whose owners had not granted permission for the crews to study their land in Roanoke County for a possible pipeline route. The surveyors agreed to...
by Nelson Bailey | May 10, 2017 | For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
RICHMOND — Bill and Lynn Limpert rallied outside Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s Capitol Square offices Thursday with a poster-sized photo of themselves back home in rural Bath County, standing at the foot of a massive sugar maple. Measuring 12 feet around, the tree is part of...
by Nelson Bailey | May 5, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
The scale of damage to mountain ridges in the path of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline remains open for debate, but Bill and Lynn Limpert say they have no doubt what the project would do to an old-growth forest along the mountain ridge facing their retirement home...
