Letter to the Roanoke Times, 5/20/18: At a hearing on May 8, Chief Judge Roger Gregory of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit described a relationship between the Forest Service and MVP that is valid for every government agency with a duty to protect the public from Continue Reading →
Construction has just started on the Mountain Valley Pipeline and offsite sedimentation is already occurring at multiple sites in Virginia and West Virginia. The following photo was taken on Friday, May 18th, in Franklin County. Cahas Mountain Road is covered in mud that has flowed from a pipeline construction entrance. For more Continue Reading →
Wild Virginia has published guidance for citizen comments to the Virginia State Water Control Board on the the adequacy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nationwide Permit 12 FOR protecting streams and wetlands crossed by the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline. A 30-day comment was announced Continue Reading →
David Paylor, Director of the Department of Environmental Quality, claimed in a recent letter to conservation groups that a blanket permit issued for waterbody crossings by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers “will protect water quality at each site.” Mr. Paylor said his conclusion is based on DEQ’s “experience observing Continue Reading →
On April 23, 2018, the DPMC sent a letter asking Governor Ralph Northam to order the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to carry out the commands of the Virginia State Water Control Board (Board) to ensure additional and necessary reviews and protections for destructive pipeline proposals. The Board ordered DEQ 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 →
A formal request has been filed with FERC, seeking an investigation of potential violations by ACP of the Commission’s Certificate and Virginia’s water quality certification. Aerial photographs taken by members of the Pipeline CSI air force showed what appears to be substantial construction work in an area of Augusta County, Continue Reading →
The Pipeline Compliance Surveillance Initiative (CSI) is a program developed by the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance and its member organizations to support citizen efforts to ensure strict application of environmental laws and regulations in the construction and operation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). Pipeline CSI will focus first on the 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 →
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 Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition (DPMC) has sent a letter to Governor Terry McAuliffe restating questions we asked him in a previous letter dated July 25, 2017. The lack of a response from the Governor forces citizens to guess at his attitudes, based on the actions of the Virginia Department Continue Reading →