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Federal appeals court orders halt to work on Atlantic Coast Pipeline
This article discusses the Appeals Court decision to stop the pipeline!
A federal appeals court has ordered a halt to construction of Dominion Energy’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline, finding that restrictions against harming wildlife are inadequate for the controversial 600-mile natural gas project.
Three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for […]
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U.S. top court rejects Constitution Pipeline over New York permit
This article discusses a recent Supreme Court ruling stopping the Constitution Pipeline from being built because NY wouldn’t issue a water permit.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt another setback to a proposed natural gas pipeline running from Pennsylvania to New York, rejecting Constitution Pipeline Co’s bid to challenge […]
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Video – Are Oil and Gas Pipelines for the Public Good?
This article links to a video from Beyond Extreme Energy.
Through the voices of those directly harmed, this video introduces eminent domain abuses.
Check out our first video in an educational series meant to engage the public on issues related to FERC, fracking, and extreme energy. Please share it far and […]
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Report: for 15 years, Energy Transfer Partner Pipelines Leaked one every 11 days.
This article discusses the abominable record that one major pipeline company has had for the past 15 years. That is, on average, 1 spill every 11 days, over 15 years – roughly 33 spills per year or almost 500 spills in 15 years.
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Landowners Question If Pipeline Companies Seizing Land to Export Oil and Gas Counts as ‘Public Good’
This article discusses the abuse of eminent domain by companies and our government in taking land for pipelines that send fracked gas overseas.
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The Atlantic Coast Pipeline threatens Virginia’s economy and clean-energy jobs
This opinion piece describes the damage that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline will cause to Virginians.
Dominion Energy’s effort to undermine economic findings that raise fundamental questions about its proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline ran into a major snag. And for good reason. The State Corporation Commission quashed the utility’s […]
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Environmental justice concerns and the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline route in NC
This study compares the race and ethnicity statistics in the path of the ATC pipeline.
This report describes publicly available data sets and quantitative analysis that local communities can use to evaluate environmental justice concerns associated with pipeline projects. We applied these data and analytical methods to two counties in North […]
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Anti-pipeline activists found not guilty because ‘protest against climate change crisis’ was legal ‘necessity’
This article discusses the results of a trial of activists in protesting the construction of a pipeline, because the protest was a “legal necessity”.
More than a dozen protesters who clambered into holes dug for a high pressure gas pipeline said they had been found not responsible by a judge after hearing them […]
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Wyoming Proposes ALEC Bill Cracking Down on Pipeline Protests
This article talks about a third state’s attempt to stifle pipeline protests, using legislation developed by America American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a fossil fuel, climate change-denying political organization. The legislation imposes felony sentencing, 10 years in prison, and/or a $100,000 fine on individuals who “willfully damage, destroy, vandalize, deface, or tamper with […]
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Keystone XL Pipeline Ruling: Trump Administration Must Release Documents
This article discusses a Montana federal judge order to the Trump administration to release documents it relied on to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline last year, a development that pipeline opponents believe could stymie the controversial project.
Last March, the State Department approved construction of the nearly 1,200-mile pipeline, which […]
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