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FERC and LaFleur Confronted At Duke University Over Pipelines

March 30, 2017 Steve Norris, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! BXE, Dominion, FERC, Pipelines

By Steve Norris for Beyond Extreme Energy. Beyond Extreme Energy and the Alliance for the Protection of Our People and the Places We Live combined forces at Duke University in Durham North Carolina to challenge FERC's ongoing Rubber Stamp permitting of fracked gas infrastructure, and to let acting head FERC Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur (above photo on far right) know that North Carolina demands the rejection of Dominion and Duke's permitting of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In contrast with the some in the audience who were upset with the protest, one person from Fayetteville whose home is located in the pipeline's blast zone commented: "Cheryl LaFleur apparently could not stand the heat, so like a child picked up her marbles and went home." Steve, Lee and Emma were briefly detained by Duke University police, who after some discussion, cited them for trespass. Their penalty is limited to being exiled from Duke University grounds forever.

Emissions Found Coming From Dominion Cove Point Right Now!

February 28, 2017 Staff, www.wearecovepoint.org Resist! Chemicals, Dominion, Export Terminals, pollution

By Staff of We Are Cove Point - After being invited by We Are Cove Point, a team from Earthworks traveled to Cove Point in early February, bringing a FLIR camera operator all the way from Colorado. FLIR cameras are designed to pick up heat and gaseous emissions invisible to the naked eye. Click here for more details on Earthworks’ FLIR camera program. FLIR cameras can show that emissions are occurring, but not the volume or type of emissions. In the words of the FLIR operator who came to Cove Point, the resulting footage shows “a noticeable non-heat plume above the point source, and it went quite high into the air. There is a possibility that this emissions plume contains toxic volatile organic compounds, and it definitely contains greenhouse gasses. It is usually understood that between 92 and 97 percent of combusted point sources are actually burned. The rest, particularly methane in the context of gas-fired compressor turbine exhaust, emits without being burned off fully.

Actions To Stop The Atlantic Coast Pipeline

February 18, 2017 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! climate crisis, Dominion, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Popular Resistance. This week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission held a 'public input session' on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in Suffolk, VA. According to Ryan Murphy in The Virginian-Pilot, the ACP is "a proposed 550-mile natural gas pipeline that would carry as much as 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas each day from West Virginia’s shale fields to North Carolina and Virginia." The public input sessions were designed to prevent the public from hearing each other. The FERC has moved to a new format for their public events. Rather than allowing people to be together and hear each other's testimony, people have to speak with FERC officials one-on-one. In North Carolina, Sierra Club helped promote parallel "people's hearings" to provide a forum for people to air their views, network, and strategize. In Fayetteville, Wilson, and Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, neighbors and concerned community members people clustered in the hall, in hotel event rooms, and around school cafeteria tables to swap information, share stories, talk to the press, get organized and encourage each other. More hearings are planned.

Property Owners Spoil Dominion’s Party In Richmond

December 16, 2016 Staff, www.notaking.org Resist! Dominion, eminent domain, Pipelines

By Staff of Americans for Personal Property, Energy, & Landowners - Representatives of energy giant Dominion Resources were caught off guard this week by landowners outraged over the company’s threatened use of eminent domain in the construction of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). Bruce McKay, ‎Senior Energy Policy Director of Dominion, struggled to explain the utility’s position to an increasingly skeptical audience during a panel at the Republican Party of Virginia Advance in Richmond Dec. 10. Dominion thought they had the deck stacked in their favor. They didn’t expect Virginia property owners directly affected by the pipeline to show up, advocating for their rights.

Loudoun Officials Caught Off-Guard By Dominion’s New Compressor Expansion Plans

October 28, 2016 Mark Hand, www.dcmediagroup.us Educate! Dominion

By Mark Hand for DC Media Group - Local lawmakers are bewildered by Dominion Resources Inc.’s latest plans to upgrade a natural gas pipeline compressor station in Loudoun County, Va., less than two years after the company promised no new compressor expansions in the area would be forthcoming. The planned compression expansion is part of a project that Dominion is calling Eastern Market Access, a project that will increase capacity on its Dominion Cove Point pipeline by about 294,000 dekatherms per day.

Gas Industry Execs Get A Very Bumpy Tour Of Cove Point

October 6, 2016 Staff, www.wearecovepoint.org Resist! Cove Point, Dominion, Gas

By Staff of We Are Cove Point - Activists made an impact on both sides of a tour of Dominion’s export terminal at Cove Point this morning, with a lockdown onto the tour bus as it tried to leave Washington, DC, and local residents greeting it with a large banner as it came into Cove Point, Maryland. Kiewit, the lead contractor in the construction of Dominion’s $3,8 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal at Cove Point, scheduled a tour of the Cove Point facility as the closing activity of the North American Gas Forum in Washington, DC.

Union Leadership Disputes Dominion Statement On Lockout

September 9, 2016 Staff, www.therecord-online.com Resist! Dominion, Unions, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Staff of The Record Online - BRIDGEPORT, WV — Locked out local union members today gathered at the entrance to Dominion Transmission’s Leidy facility, this in the wake of the company-imposed lockout across six states. Dominion Transmission and Dominion Hope locked out the employees just after midnight, affecting more than 900 employees who are members of United Gas Workers Union Local 69. The membership includes some 50 to 60 employees in the Leidy Field area.

“Paddle On The Patuxent” Links Dominion With Disaster

March 14, 2016 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Activism, Dominion, Maryland

By Anne Meador for DC Media Group - A small flotilla of activists in kayaks launched into the Patuxent River at Solomons, MD on March 13 in a demonstration of support for locals battling a liquefied natural gas facility under construction in their residential neighborhood. From the Thomas Johnson Bridge, 21 kayakers paddled by the pier where barges have delivered massive cargoes too big to transport to the Dominion Cove Point terminal over land. As they proceeded down the river’s broad, shallow channel toward the Chesapeake Bay, a police boat shadowed their movements.

Kayactivsts Protest Fracked Gas Terminal At Cove Point

March 13, 2016 Jimmy Betts, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Cove Point, Dominion, Fracking, Gas, Kayactivists

By Jimmy Betts for We Are Cove Point. In protest of the construction of Dominion’s liquefied natural gas export terminal, dozens of activists and community members held a rally on March 13 on the boardwalk at Solomons Island that was accompanied by a flotilla of kayaks in the Patuxent River. Among those assembled were people fighting LNG export terminals in Texas and Oregon, as well as those fighting fracked gas infrastructure throughout the mid-Atlantic. The action was organized by a coalition of groups that coalesced at the recent Cove Point Spring Break camp, including We Are Cove Point, SEED, the Backbone Campaign and many others. Today’s rally was a message that people won’t stand by as their communities are overrun by corporations looking to make a profit at the expense of our health and well-being.

17 Students Arrested Protesting Dominion Coal Ash Dumping

March 8, 2016 VSE Coalition, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Coal ash, Dominion

By VSE Coalition for Popular Resistance. activists from the Virginia Student Environmental Coalition (VSEC) refuse to leave the DEQ lobby until Director of the DEQ, David Paylor, complies with their demands regarding Dominion Resources’ dumping of coal ash wastewater into the James River and Quantico Creek. This action is taking place in light of information that Dominion illegally dumped 33.7 million gallons of untreated wastewater into Quantico Creek over the past summer. The demands are as follows: That the DEQ repeals the permits issued to Dominion to begin dumping coal ash wastewater from their Bremo and Possum Point power plants. That the current permits are re-issued only after an investigation into the 2015 dumping of untreated wastewater into Quantico Creek. That the permits for coal ash wastewater release are rewritten to comply with the best available technology standards, in accordance with the Clean Water Act, and that a mechanism for independent third party monitoring is implemented.

Virginia Issues Violation Notice To Dominion For Spill

February 22, 2016 Staff, www.wusa9.com Resist! Dominion, Oil Spill, Virginia

By Staff of Associated Press - RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia environmental regulators are issuing a notice of violation to Dominion Virginia Power for a mineral oil spill that fouled a portion of the Potomac River in northern Virginia. The notice issued Friday by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is a first step to ensure that Dominion is held accountable for the Feb. 3 spill. It could lead to civil penalties, corrective actions and reimbursement for cleanup costs.

DUMP DOMINION: A March For Our Rivers!

February 22, 2016 Staff, www.facebook.com Resist! Dominion, March, Virginia

By Staff of NO ACP - Over 700 folks joined us on this beautiful sunny Saturday! This was the largest anti Dominion protest in VA history! We can’t thank the attendees, the arrestees and our wonderful team of point people and liaisons enough. We have more love for you all than we ever have. We came to our state capitol to challenge the toxic relationship between Dominion, Governor McAuliffe, DEQ, and our legislators. The rally was full of insightful and intersectional speakers that enlightened us to Dominion’s overreach, green-washing, eco-racism, eco-feminism, Appalachian resistance history, and much more.

Action To Tell Bank Of America: ‘Dump Dominion’

January 16, 2016 Staff, www.wearecovepoint.org Resist! Bank of America, Dominion, Fracking, Oil and Gas

By We Are Cove Point. Washington, DC - On January 21, We Are Cove Point will hold an action outside the huge Bank of America near the White House in Washington, DC to tell Bank of America to stop funding Dominion’s dirty and dangerous facility under construction in Lusby, MD. We delivered letters to bank managers from Connecticut to North Carolina on December 16, 2015. We sent letters to Bank of America’s press officers, board and CEO. No response. This time we are going to make a lot of noise so they can hear us! Meet us at the Bank of America at 711 15th St. NW in Washington DC at NOON on Thursday, January 21. We will have large banners and some signs. Bring noisemakers. Bring your friends and family. This will be fun!

Jump Into Dump Dominion Day Of Action!

December 13, 2015 We Are Cove Point, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Bank of America, Climate Change, Dominion, Fracking

By We Are Cove Point for Popular Resistance. On December 16, we are telling Bank of America to stop financing Dominion’s dangerous gas refinery and export terminal in Cove Point with actions throughout the area. On December 16, we are telling Bank of America to stop financing Dominion’s dangerous gas refinery and export terminal in Cove Point with actions throughout the area. Join an action or organize your own. We’ll help you. Lusby, Maryland - We Are Cove Point is a coalition of people and organizations that is working together to stop a new liquefied fracked gas export terminal that Dominion Resources is trying to build in the residential community of Cove Point in Lusby, Maryland. This is the first liquefied fracked gas export terminal to be built on the East Coast and the first one to be built adjacent to a densely-populated residential neighborhood. Bank of America is a major financier of Dominion.

Breaking: Activists Hang From Stadium To Protest BofA

November 2, 2015 Staff, www.wearecovepoint.org Resist! Bank of America, Dominion, Fracking, health

By We Are Cove Point. CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA — In protest of Bank of America’s role in financing the planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Cove Point, Maryland, activists from We Are Cove Point have suspended themselves from the upper deck of Bank of America Stadium during the Monday Night Football game between the Charlotte Panthers and the Indianapolis Colts. They dropped a banner that reads, “BoA: Dump Dominion, WeAreCovePoint.org,” that was seen by the stadium audience of more than 70,000 people. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has played a major role in financing Dominion Resources (NYSE: D) and its $3.8 billion LNG export facility at Cove Point through Dominion Midstream (NYSE: DM). Bank of America is part of a consortium of banks that is lending Dominion up to $4 billion to finance several planned gas infrastructure projects.

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