by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 28, 2018 | Compressor Stations, For Landowners, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Introduction: We have been researching best methods of baseline testing of water, in addition to air, noise, and health going on 2 years now. We applied for a grant to cover 30 well water sites along the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) path in Buckingham. So...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 11, 2018 | Events, Regulatory Permit Process
Dominion & Atlantic Coast Pipeline want to override Buckingham County’s important FEMA Floodplain Management Ordinance protections. ACP needs approvals from Buckingham County Board of Supervisors to cross 7 floodplains in Buckingham County. The proposal is...
by Nelson Bailey | Feb 5, 2018 | Economic Impacts, Pipelines
Gov. Roy Cooper last week brokered a controversial memorandum of understanding with Dominion Power, which co-owns with Duke Energy, the even more controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Under the agreement, Duke and Dominion will pay a total of $57.8 million to a...
by Nelson Bailey | Feb 1, 2018 | Accidents, Fossil Fuels
Noble County, OH — First responders were on the scene of a pipeline explosion and fire in Noble County early Wednesday morning. Officials say the incident happened around 2:30 a.m. about 3 miles north of Summerfield along State Route 513. The pipeline has been...
by Nelson Bailey | Feb 1, 2018 | For Landowners, Fossil Fuels
With just a few hours remaining until Thursday, the day that Mountain Valley Pipeline had hoped to start work on a natural gas pipeline through Southwest Virginia, a judge put a pause to those plans. The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth Dillon came...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 22, 2018 | Health & Safety, Natural Gas
Five people were missing Monday after an explosion at an Oklahoma drilling rig sent plumes of black smoke into the sky, emergency officials said. The drilling rig in Quinton, about 100 miles southeast of Tulsa, exploded just before 9 a.m. while about two dozen people...
