by Nelson Bailey | Jun 18, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality confirmed last week that past approaches to reviewing utility projects would not suffice for analyzing the potential environmental impacts of two 42-inch diameter natural gas pipelines that could burrow through the state....
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 17, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
There is a growing political scandal in Virginia regarding the ubiquitous influence of the state’s largest energy company, Dominion Energy, and it’s raising fundamental questions about the integrity of the governor’s office and state regulators who...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 17, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
This story was a collaboration between the Center for Public Integrity and StateImpact Oklahoma, a reporting project of NPR member stations in Oklahoma. Jennifer Merritt’s first graders at Jefferson elementary school in Pryor, Oklahoma, were in for a treat. Sitting...
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 17, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
Federal energy regulators overseeing the development of a new interstate natural gas pipeline have announced the opening of an investigation, following the inadvertent release of about 2 million gallons of drilling fluid from a horizontal directional drill operation....
by Nelson Bailey | Jun 15, 2017 | For Landowners, Health & Safety
Supervisors in Buckingham tabled a special use permit for Dominion on Monday to construct a 195-foot microwave communications tower as part of its proposed 53,783-horsepower compressor station along the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project. The board’s...
