PRESS RELEASE (1/22/18): A citizen initiative to monitor construction activities of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is being launched today by the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance (ABRA), a coalition of over 50 organizations in Virginia and West Virginia. The objective of the Pipeline Compliance Surveillance Initiative (Pipeline CSI) is to ensure strict Continue Reading →
Today, DPMC sent a letter to Governor Northam asking that he take swift and decisive action to restore integrity and transparency to Virginia’s regulatory reviews of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). We fear that, without prompt attention to the concerns expressed in the letter, Continue Reading →
Prepared by David Sligh on behalf of Wild Virginia and the Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition. . . . In the last two weeks, the Virginia State Water Control Board (Board) made important decisions about both the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). Both at the meetings Continue Reading →
On October 25, 2017, attorneys representing five citizen groups sent a letter to members of the Virginia State Water Control Board with the intention to clarify the legal authorities and duties that must govern the Board’s decision on the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipeline projects. The groups represented include: Continue Reading →
The DPMC has written to Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Director, David Paylor, insisting that recent information provided by the Department of Conservation and Recreation be entered into the official record for the Clean Water Act Section 401 Water Quality Certification for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The DCR letter, submitted to FERC on August 21st, Continue Reading →
Dominion is gaming the system and the McAuliffe administration’s DEQ is playing along. As we recently stated: the organizations and experts working with the DPMC have persistently expressed doubts that a project on the scale of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, constructed across the steep Appalachian mountains, can be built without Continue Reading →
Charlottesville, VA— The Southern Environmental Law Center, Shenandoah Valley Network, Virginia Conservation Network and more than 75 other environmental, conservation, and public advocacy groups that represent tens of thousands of Virginians have signed on to a letter urging the Commonwealth to require individual 401 certification review for wetland and stream crossings in Continue Reading →
The organizations and experts working with the DPMC have persistently expressed doubts that a project on the scale of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, constructed across the steep Appalachian mountains, can be built without significant long-term harm to the region’s high-quality streams, wetlands, and groundwater resources. Although Dominion and its supporters Continue Reading →
On May 15, 2017, the Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition (DPMC) sent a letter to David Paylor, Director of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), describing some of the information that companies proposing the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) must submit with applications for Clean Continue Reading →
The Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition has objected to a Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) proposal to issue a “Water Quality Certification” (WQC) that would give free rein to parties proposing to rip and blast through Virginia streams and wetlands to build utility lines. The DEQ has not conducted the Continue Reading →
Governor McAuliffe pleads with us to believe he’s impotent to protect Virginians and our natural treasures from the harms that would accompany the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast Pipelines. We know better. Why has the Governor claimed for so many months that only federal officials could affect the fates of Continue Reading →
DPMC has been insisting for months that the Virginia DEQ speak clearly and in writing about the status of Dominion’s application for a Clean Water Act (CWA) review, which the State is responsible for completing. We feared that without such a statement Virginia might lose its chance to properly act Continue Reading →