The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied on May 28 a request of the U.S. Corps of Engineers and the owner of the Keystone XL Pipeline to reinstate the Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP12) authority of the Corps. A federal district court in Montana had ruled on April 15 that the Corps had violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in issuing the current NWP12 and revoked the Corps’ authority to issue any new permits for pipeline projects to cross streams and rivers.
Six Years and Counting . . .
It was six-years ago this week that Dominion Energy began contacting local officials in Virginia and West Virginia to advise them of the company’s plans to build a natural gas pipeline through their communities. Initially called the Southeast Reliability Project,
Additional Public Hearing Scheduled for Header Improvement Project
The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) announced May 27 that additional public testimony on Virginia Natural Gas’s proposed Header Improvement Project (HIP) will be received on June 8 at a virtual hearing, webcast by the SCC. The deadline for filing written comments is also extended to June 8,
ARTivism Virginia Holding Concerts and Workshops on Thursdays
ARTivism Virginia, an initiative to connect artists and activists in Virginia in the fight for environmental justice, is conducting a series of online concerts and workshops on Thursday through the end of June.
The Sun Sing in Place concert Series,
Pandemic erodes the case for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
- -Facing South – 5/22/20
It’s high time to abandon ship on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
- – Appalachian Voices – 5/5/20
Virginia Clean Economy Act may help get state’s economy back on track post COVID-19
- – Charlottesville Tomorrow – 5/26/20
Northam should think like a doctor about pipelines
- – Richmond Times-Dispatch – 5/23/20
The last thing we need is a new dirty fuel project
- – Prince William Times – 5/26/20
Mountain Valley Pipeline requests variance to tunnel under Roanoke River
- – WHSV News – 5/22/20