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Warning Letters to Dominion for the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines
This warning letter was issued to Dominion Energy because of unsafe practices in laying pipelines for both the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines. It was issued by Robert Burrough, Director, Eastern Region, of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. It is another example of the vendors not […]
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Mountain Valley Pipeline
This Sierra Club article discusses a new lawsuit filed by multiple environmental groups against the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Conservation groups today launched a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The petition for review of the project was filed with the Fourth […]
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Mountain Valley Pipeline – 2 articles
This Blue Virginia article discusses the Mountain Valley Pipeline and an “Emergency Authorization” request to prevent a life threatening landslide. In July, this bloated corporate criminal – MVP is under criminal investigation by the U. S. Attorney’s Office in Roanoke – sent out a crew to survey a portion […]
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DeSmogblog, August 9, 2019
This week’s articles discuss:
Documents Shine New Light on Koch Brothers’ Early Efforts to Abolish the Department of Energy
Announcing DeSmog’s Koch Network Database
Bleak Financial Outlook for US Fracking Industry
Comment: Yes, Scientists Say we Need to Plant Trees and Eat Less Meat — But Not as a […]
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Report: Pipeline-Related Pollution Events
The environmental group, West Virginia Rivers, discusses pipeline-related pollution in a new report here.
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Kentucky pipeline blast leaves 1 dead, 5 injured
This article discusses the Kentucky pipeline blast that killed 1 person and injured 5 others. A regional gas pipeline ruptured early Thursday in Kentucky, causing a massive explosion that killed one person, hospitalized five others, destroyed railroad tracks and forced the evacuation of a nearby mobile home park, authorities said.
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Mountain Valley Pipeline – 7 articles
This article discusses the coating on the exposed pipes is safe, Mountain Valley tells regulators. A protective coating applied to the massive pipeline under construction in Virginia and West Virginia poses no known harms, developers of the Mountain Valley Pipeline have told federal regulators. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission […]
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Federal Court Tosses Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s Key Endangered Species Permits – 2 articles
This article discusses a recent court decision to toss the Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s key Endangered Species permits. A federal court has thrown out two key permits for the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline. U.S. 4th Circuit Court Chief Judge Robert Gregory said in an opinion issued Friday that the U.S. Fish and […]
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Construction materials for pipeline washed into Smith Mountain Lake
This article discusses the Mountain Valley Pipeline construction materials that washed into Smith Mountain Lake. Large wooden mats, used as temporary roadways for construction equipment building the Mountain Valley Pipeline, have been swept down the Blackwater River by heavy rains in recent weeks.
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MVP’s violations show ‘complete absence of any and all meaningful regulation’
This Virginia Mercury article discusses the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and its records of environmental violations.
Ever since Mountain Valley Pipeline first proposed to gouge a 303-mile long, 125-foot wide scar across the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, countless experts have warned of the uncontrollable erosion the project would provoke.
These […]
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