Virginia

Pipeline Opposition Growing In Craig Co., Virginia

March 1, 2015 Patrick Smith, www.ourvalley.org Resist! Pipelines, Virginia

Opposition to a proposed pipeline that would pass through Craig County is growing, and a group of concerned citizens has organized and plans to present a petition to the Craig County Board of Supervisors at its March 5 meeting. Citizens to Preserve Craig County, the same group that organized to stop a 765 kV electrical line from being built in Craig County in the 1990s, is now banding together against the proposed 36-42-inch in diameter Mountain Valley Pipeline and other natural gas lines that might pass through the county. Citizens to Preserve Craig County has posted a petition online at http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/preservecraigcounty and printed hard copies that are available to sign at local businesses like J’s Market and The Emporium. The petition asks the Craig County Board of Supervisors to oppose the pipeline’s construction. An email containing the petition and other information about Mountain Valley Pipeline, a joint venture between EQT Corporation and NextEra U.S. Gas Assets, was sent to 300 people Sunday, and Wolf reported that as of Monday morning the group had already solicited around 100 signatures.

Belleville: Trail Guardians Worried About Pipelines

February 23, 2015 Laura Belleville, www.roanoke.com Resist! Environment, Oil & Gas, Pipeline, Virginia

For the past 90 years, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy has served as a guardian of the nearly 2,200-mile Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Today, we are faced with one of the most challenging threats ever to the integrity of the trail: a series of proposals to build new petroleum pipeline corridors across the trail to transport natural gas. We want to offer additional points for consideration relevant to the article “Landowner rights vs. public need”. We are specifically concerned about the cumulative impact of the significant number of pipelines being proposed across Appalachian National Scenic Trail landscapes. Some of these landscapes are public lands and others are private. Regardless of land ownership, we need to take a critical look at the overall impacts to these lands from this modern day “gas rush.”

Dominion Pipeline Opponents Rally At Capitol

January 24, 2015 Bill Sizemore, www.cetology.org Resist! Dominion, Environment, Virginia

Environmentalists and western Virginia property owners rallied Friday at the state Capitol in opposition to a proposed 550-mile natural gas pipeline. Richmond-based Dominion Resources is partnering with other utilities to build the $5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would cross the Blue Ridge Mountains to deliver gas from Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. Friday’s rally was organized by the Sierra Club and Friends of Nelson, a group of property owners in Nelson County who live along the proposed pipeline route. Opponents of Atlantic Coast Pipeline rally at General Assembly/Photo Friends of Nelson Photo by David Martin Environmentalists say the project would contribute to global warming because of the extraction method, known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” used to get the gas out of the ground.

Virginians Don’t Take Kindly To Dominion’s Bullying Ways

January 23, 2015 Anne Meador, www.cetology.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Media, Virginia

As a native of southwest Virginia, I have been watching the fierce opposition to the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines with amazement and pride. With little shale gas reserves, Virginia has remained relatively untouched by the fracking bonanza so far. Many states on the East Coast have quickly succumbed to the siren song of “jobs and tax revenue” promised by the gas companies fracking the Marcellus Shale. Likewise, pipeline companies try to sell the same bill of goods to the gullible. Conservative Virginia is largely pro-business and pro-industry, suspicious of liberal environmentalists. Dominion’s big bucks have got all the state’s politicians in its pockets. It would make sense if these new fracked gas pipelines were met with little resistance.

Pipeline Protesters Make Themselves Heard In Virginia

January 22, 2015 Calvin Trice, www.newsleader.com Organize! Fracking, Pipelines, Virginia

At Dominion’s latest open house to provide information on a proposed natural gas pipeline that would run through Augusta County, many among the hundreds who turned out found colorful ways to take matters into their own hands. Inside and outside Augusta Expo, they demonstrated with a prop, held signs aloft, chanted, sang and argued energy policy with their opponents. Jennifer Lewis and pipeline opponents marched around the Expo parking lot holding up a replica tube that was 42 inches wide to represent the diameter of the underground pipeline. “Pipelines corrode! Leak and explode!” they chanted.

Cove Point Fracked Gas Export Threatens Safety Of Residents

June 20, 2014 Karen Gibbs, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Fracking, pollution, Safety, Virginia

As a resident of the town of Lusby, MD, where a Virginia-based energy giant Dominion Resources wants to build a massive $3.8 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility, I’ve sought out and received a significant education on the safety risks inherent in this industry over the past year. In the process, I’ve returned again and again to this question: Is my safety—and that of the thousands of families living within several miles of this project—a significant concern to federal regulators? These are facts, not mere speculation: on Sept. 13, 2013, a gas processing facility partly owned by Dominion Resources exploded in Natrium, WV. On March 31, an LNG plant exploded in Plymouth, WA, injuring five workers and rupturing an LNG storage tank, resulting in the formation of a flammable vapor gas cloud. On April 23, another major gas processing facility exploded in Opal, WY, forcing the evacuation of the entire town of about 95 residents. These facts are highly significant because the potential consequences of a similar explosion at Dominion’s proposed Cove Point LNG export facility in Lusby could be far more severe.

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