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 | Economic Impacts, For Landowners, Pipelines
HUNTINGDON — A Huntingdon County judge ruled this week that a family camped out on its own property has to vacate the premises to allow construction to continue for the Mariner East 2 Pipeline. Ellen Gerheart and her husband have owned the property that is now...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 5, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
Is the Atlantic Coast Pipeline permit too big to deny? Maybe keeping track of the ACP’s 1,989 water body crossings by our DEQ is just too big a job, even if it is their job. The Natural Gas Act specifically preserves state authority to approve or deny a Water Quality...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 5, 2017 | Events, Pipelines
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) – Sunday, anti-pipeline hikers reached the end of the line on their two-week trek following the path of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline across the Shenandoah Valley and central Virginia. The hikers celebrated the completion of...
