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Concerns over erosion impact of Mountain Valley Pipeline continue with project in limbo

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  • – Charleston Gazette-Mail – 1/28/21
Daniel Shaffer February 19, 2021 Regional & MVP, Regional Issues Read more

A Thin Green Line with Global Impact

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  • – InvestigateWest – 1/18/21
Daniel Shaffer January 22, 2021 Big Picture Read more

Mining has a lasting impact

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  • – The Farmville Herald – 11/11/20
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Daniel Shaffer November 20, 2020November 20, 2020 Local & ACP, Regional Issues Read more

Putting a pipeline through a forest: a foregone conclusion?

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  • – The Roanoke Times – 11/1/20
Daniel Shaffer November 16, 2020 ACP-MVP, Regional & MVP Read more

Forest Service to release new report on Mountain Valley’s impacts on Jefferson National Forest

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  • – The Roanoke Times – 7/31/20
Daniel Shaffer August 7, 2020 Regional & MVP Read more

Dominion Pipeline Demise Delays Closer Look at Climate Impacts

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  • – Bloomberg Law – 7/15/20
Daniel Shaffer July 16, 2020 Local & ACP Read more

Study identifies Kansas as promising state for wind energy development with little impact on wildlife

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  • – Topeka Capital-Journal – 7/11/20
Daniel Shaffer July 16, 2020 Big Picture Read more

Is This the End of New Pipelines?

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  • – The New York Times – 7/8/20
Daniel Shaffer July 10, 2020 Big Picture Read more

New Report Documents Impact of Pipelines Crossing Streams and Rivers

West Virginia Rivers Coalition and Trout Unlimited have released a new report discussing the impact pipeline construction has on rivers and streams. Reducing Impacts of Pipelines Crossing Rivers and Streams notes that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and Mountain Valley Pipeline routes include over 2,600 waterbody crossings in West Virginia,

Daniel Shaffer June 19, 2020 Pipeline Updates Read more

FERC Is Asked to Conduct Supplemental EIS for ACP

A coalition environmental and conservation organizations, most of them ABRA members, filed a motion on May 30 with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) requesting that the Commission supplement the Environmental Impact Statement for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) to address significant new information bearing on the project’s environmental impacts. 

Daniel Shaffer June 5, 2020 Pipeline Updates Read more
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The Allegheny Blue-Ridge Alliance (ABRA) is a coalition of organizations concerned about the natural gas pipeline that Dominion Resources and its partner companies have proposed to build through portions of West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina.

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