The DPMC team is redirecting its time and resources to the Pipeline Compliance Surveillance Initiative (CSI), a program of the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance (ABRA). If the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is allowed to proceed despite flawed regulatory review and permitting, the ABRA-CSI program will work to limit the inevitable environmental damage Continue Reading →

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) provides a bleak example of environmental agency failure to provide objective review and effective oversight of pipeline projects. A new presentation prepared for ABRA’s CSI program compares the empty assurances provided by elected officials, regulatory agencies, and Dominion Energy with the realities of incomplete plans, Continue Reading →

The Pipeline Air Force conducted three ACP surveillance flights over the 200-mile CSI focus area in November and December of 2018. Based on analysis of the November and December 2018 flight photos by CSI Aerial Image Reviewers, 22 separate complaints concerning regulatory non-compliance were submitted by the West Virginia Rivers Continue Reading →

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuiit has vacated a crucial Forest Service permit for Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline, ruling that the Forest Service abdicated it responibility to preserve national forest resources and improperly authorized a right of way across the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. (See The Court Continue Reading →

ABRA’s Pipeline Compliance Surveillance (CSI) program is seeking assistance from knowledgeable individuals who can participate as CSI Aerial Photo Reviewers. Although we especially seek the help of professionals with erosion and sediment control, stormwater management, and other water-resource backgrounds, the involvement of others is welcomed and encouraged. Aerial Photo Reviewers will Continue Reading →

The Pipeline Air Force, a component of the Pipeline Compliance Surveillance Initiative (CSI), has conducted multiple surveillance flights over Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) construction areas in West Virginia in recent months. This report includes a small subset of the thousands of aerial photos of ACP construction obtained by the CSI. Continue Reading →

The Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition (DPMC) has learned that the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is just now compiling the thousands of emails and other comments citizens submitted during the comment period that ended more than a month ago. This outrageous foot-dragging fits a pattern DEQ has set for months Continue Reading →

The Virginia Conservation Network (VCN) has collected  comments submitted in response to the State Water Control Board’s request for public input concerning the Army Corps of Engineers’ Nationwide Permit 12 and where it falls short in upholding state water quality standards and where stream-by-stream reviews are needed for the Atlantic Coast Continue Reading →

Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance email alert:  A motion was filed on July 5th with the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, asking that construction activity on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) be halted until the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) complies with the particulars of the Court’s May 15 order vacating the FWS’s Incidental Take Continue Reading →

DEQ’s waterbody crossing conclusions are without valid support. The Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition has issued a new report entitled The Agency Has No Records . . . DEQ’s Failure to Use Sound Science to Protect Virginian’s from Pipeline Threats.  The report describes Virginia DEQ’s responses to a series of records Continue Reading →

Dominion Energy asserts that the ACP has received an unprecedented level of regulatory review, and it’s time to get on with it. Meanwhile it withholds its real construction plans while expecting broad waivers from environmental conditions and standards. Dominion has persistently failed to make site-specific construction plans available to the Continue Reading →

As reported previously, aerial photographs of apparent unauthorized construction work where Dominion Energy proposes to drill through the Blue Ridge Mountains for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline  were obtained during recent surveillance flights conducted by the Pipeline Compliance Surveillance Initiative (CSI), a program of the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance (ABRA). Requests for Continue Reading →

Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance’s (ABRA) special meeting to unveil details about the new Pipeline Compliance Surveillance Initiative (CSI) will also feature a panel discussion on the status of various legal challenges on government agency decisions made about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The meeting will take place on Saturday, March 3, from Continue Reading →