Dominion’s ACP Payoff is Raising Eyebrows (Illegal — ?)

February 3, 2018

Secret Sellout or Pay to Play? Terry McAuliffe’s Parting Gift to Dominion Energy and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline From an Article by Jon Sokolow, Blue Virginia, February 2, 2018 Did Terry McAuliffe sell out Virginia right before he left office? Or did he do something even worse? Did McAuliffe accept $58 million (paid to various [...]

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Landowners Legal Protests Brings Delay in MVP Pipeline Schedule

February 2, 2018

Federal judge puts a pause on Mountain Valley Pipeline construction plans From an Article by Laurence Hammack, Roanoke Times, January 31, 2018 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 [...]

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Tallgrass Seneca Lateral Pipeline Explosion in Southeastern Ohio

February 2, 2018

Natural Gas Pipeline Rupture, Gas Release, Explosion and Fire Rocks Rural Noble County Ohio From an Article of WTAP News 47, Marietta, Ohio, January 31, 2018 A section of the 24-inch Seneca Lateral natural gas pipeline in a remote area of Noble County exploded early Wednesday morning. The Noble County Emergency Management Office says it [...]

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Is the Pipeline Deal OK Because NC Gov. Cooper Says So?

February 1, 2018

Memo between NC governor, pipeline operators says no one can challenge agreement in court! From an Article by Dan Way, Carolina Journal, January 29, 2018 Is a financial agreement between the governor of North Carolina and a private party legal just because the governor says so? That’s the gist of the memorandum of understanding hammered [...]

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Plenty of Challenges With Shale Drilling & Fracking

January 31, 2018

Part 1. Shale gas is not a sustainable way to produce energy Essay by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV Remember the days when “natural gas is a bridge to the future” was a big advertising gimmick?  It has gone the way of the revived gas light sentimentality a few years before that.  [...]

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WV & NC Give Water Quality Approval to Dominion ACP Pipeline

January 30, 2018

North Carolina OKs Appalachia-to-Southeast ACP Water Quality Certification From an Article in the NGI Shale Daily, January 29, 2018 North Carolina on Friday issued the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) a section 401 water quality certification (WQC) under the federal Clean Water Act, capping part of a prolonged regulatory process that brings the project one step [...]

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More Ethane Now Flowing to Canada via Utopia Pipeline

January 29, 2018

Utopia Pipeline Sending Ohio Valley Ethane to Canada — Operation up and running after clearing hurdles — From an Article by Casey Junkins, Wheeling Intelligencer, January 27, 2018 WHEELING — After hundreds of eminent domain lawsuits, several route adjustments and at least $500 million worth of investments, Kinder Morgan is pumping Marcellus and Utica shale [...]

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So-called “Co-Tenancy Bill” Again Under Consideration in Legislature

January 28, 2018

“Co-Tenancy” Bill Being Considered by WV House Energy Committee From Julie Archer, WV Surface Owners’ Rights Organization, January 27, 2018 Dear Friends, The 2018 legislative session is in full swing and you may have heard on the news or via social media that a “co-tenancy” bill (HB 4268) is now being considered by the House [...]

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Summer Camp & Outdoor Recreation Areas Not Acceptable for Fracking?

January 27, 2018

Hydrofracking and Jewish Summer Camp From an Essay by Rabbi Wallace Greene, Jewish Link of New Jersey, January 25, 2018 Now it is freezing and snowy, but summer camp enrollment is taking place. Parlor meetings often feature a video tour of the camps’ facilities. Here are the bunks, the dining hall, the waterfront, the baseball [...]

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Risk Assessment Necessary for Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline Project

January 26, 2018

Editorial: Bring on the pipeline risk assessment study Editorial of the Delaware County Daily Times, Swarthmore (Pa), January 25, 2018 A community group has asked Delaware County Council to do a risk assessment on the Mariner East 2 pipeline project, seen in the photo during construction. Council has agreed to the request. Don’t look now, [...]

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