by Nelson Bailey | Jul 30, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
The company behind the Keystone XL pipeline has not yet determined whether there is enough demand for the project to justify actually building it, a top executive said today. It was the strongest acknowledgment from TransCanada to date that the nearly decade-long...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 23, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
Federal regulators say the proposed 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project — one that would result a 42-inch natural gas pipeline spanning Buckingham and parts of Cumberland and Prince Edward along with a 53,783-horsepower gas-fired compressor station along...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 22, 2017 | Fracking, Health & Safety
VERONA – The Augusta County Board of Supervisors voted Wednesday night to prohibit fracking in the county in a move to keep clean water flowing in the area. Augusta is the first county in the commonwealth to pass a zoning ordinance that completely prohibits...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 19, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
Last week, Virginia’s Supreme Court upheld a state law that allows natural gas companies to survey private property without the owner’s permission for a proposed pipeline, but legal experts say landowners could still block construction as Sandy Hausman reports. Future...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 17, 2017 | Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
They landed, one after another, in 2015: plans for nearly a dozen interstate pipelines to move natural gas beneath rivers, mountains and people’s yards. Like spokes on a wheel, they’d spread from Appalachia to markets in every direction. Together these new...
by Nelson Bailey | Jul 8, 2017 | FERC communications, Politics of energy
A federal agency issued its final environmental statement (EIS) on June 23 for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project. The release marked a major milestone, setting the stage for a decision from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) about whether the...
