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Federal review recommends leaving cancelled Atlantic Coast Pipeline pipe, felled trees in place
A federal review of a plan to restore land disturbed by construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline prior to its cancellation in July 2020 recommends that some 31 miles of installed pipeline and 83 miles of trees felled for the project be left in place to minimize further disturbance to wildlife and vegetation. “Overall, we […]
Virginia landowners urge FERC to require cancelled Atlantic Coast Pipeline to relinquish easements
Several dozen landowners who granted easements to the developers of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are asking federal regulators to require the pipeline to give them up now that the project has been cancelled. “I signed an easement agreement in October 2018 because I felt I had no choice,” wrote Judy Allen in comments filed with […]
Democrats hold onto two House seats, Atlantic Coast Pipeline lays out plans for unwinding project, Richmond health director endorses paid sick leave, and more headlines
NEWS TO KNOW Our daily roundup of headlines from Virginia and elsewhere. • Health officials in Richmond say they expect to begin vaccinating people over 75 and essential workers like grocery store clerks and teachers next month. In Roanoke, officials say they will have wrapped up efforts to vaccinate eligible health care workers as soon as […]
Federal regulators order Atlantic Coast Pipeline to provide a plan for project wind-down, restoration
Almost four months after the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, federal regulators have ordered the project developers to provide a plan for what they intend to do with the facilities and the lands where the natural gas pipeline was supposed to be built. The order from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission applies to both […]
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline was canceled. What happens to all the land acquired for it?
The bitterly fought Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been canceled, but the two major utilities behind it, Virginia-based Dominion Energy and North Carolina-based Duke Energy, still have not decided what to do about the land they gained control over for the project, in some cases through eminent domain. “There are a number of important issues that […]
What sank the Atlantic Coast Pipeline? It wasn’t just environmentalism.
The news seemed to come out of nowhere. On a hot Sunday afternoon, Union Hill pastor Paul M. Wilson was sitting on his porch eating seafood when he got a call that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the 600-mile natural gas conduit that he and thousands of others in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina had […]
With the Atlantic Coast Pipeline dead, it’s time to topple remaining fossil fuel monuments
By Mike Tidwell It’s been a tough year for the Old Guard in Virginia. Powerful symbols of the past are being shut down. Toxic systems and traditions are being defunded in favor of radically new ideas for running society. I’m talking about energy, of course. After decades of ignoring yet another elephant in the room, […]
Delays, legal challenges allowed the curtain to be pulled back on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
They might as well have said “Ding-dong, the witch is dead!” The news releases, statements and tweets were coming in hot and heavy Sunday afternoon after Dominion Energy and its partner, Duke Energy, announced that the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline was toast, undone by a string of successful legal challenges that stripped it of permits, […]
Dominion cancels Atlantic Coast Pipeline, announces sale of natural gas transmission and storage assets
In a sharp pivot away from natural gas, Dominion Energy announced Sunday that it is canceling the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline and selling “substantially all” of its natural gas transmission and storage assets to a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate. The decision follows six years of work developing the ACP, of which Dominion controls the majority share, […]
With Supreme Court case over, courts again weigh whether Atlantic Coast Pipeline is needed
Last week, the Supreme Court handed a victory to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline when it ruled that the U.S. Forest Service had the authority to allow the project to cross beneath the Appalachian Trail. But the end of that battle has seen the revival of another, more fundamental conflict: whether the pipeline really is needed. […]