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Update 135

FERC Is Asked to Conduct Hearing on Justifying the ACP

The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of several ABRA member organizations, filed on June 21 a motion asking that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) hold a hearing on the legitimacy of Dominion and Duke Energy’s natural gas demand claims as a basis for building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

Daniel Shaffer June 23, 2017June 23, 2017 Pipeline Updates Read more

Pipelines and Water Webinar Scheduled for Wednesday, June 28

A special webinar on Pipelines and Water will be conducted by Appalachian Voices next Wednesday, June 28, from 12:30 to 2 pm.  The session will cover state-level water quality certification under the Clean Water Act § 401 and how to engage in the 401-process for the interstate Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipeline projects.

Daniel Shaffer June 23, 2017 Pipeline Updates Read more

Follow-up Questions Asked of DEQ’s Paylor

The June 6 visit of David Paylor, Director of the Virginia Department of Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), to a portion of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline route in Highland and Bath County has been followed up with a series of questions. 

Daniel Shaffer June 23, 2017 Pipeline Updates Read more

Pipeline Calendars: Who’s on First? What’s on Second?

Tomorrow, June 23, is the date on which the final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is to be released.  That date, if it holds, will be followed by several other target dates over the next several months when key decisions,

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Feds need a summer mountain day

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  • – The Recorder – 6/22/17
Daniel Shaffer June 23, 2017 Local & ACP Read more

Environmental groups: Justification for Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline has ‘eroded’

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  • – Richmond Times-Dispatch – 6/21/17
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Dominion sticks to proposed ACP route

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  • – The Recorder – 6/22/17
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Pipeline astroturfing continues

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  • – The Recorder – 6/22/17
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In the pipeline’s path: Property owners object to use of eminent domain

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  • – The Wilson Times – 6/20/17
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Virginia’s Power Broker

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  • – The American Prospect – 6/22/17
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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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