20. Polluting for Profit: The Case of Dominion Energy

Kathy Andrews is an advocate, real estate agent, and property owner. She and others are fighting Dominion Energy, a private company, who wants to build a huge pipeline through her and her neighbor’s land. Some of the land Dominion wants to go through is heirs property, the land of working class residents, and rural property bordering the Great Pee Dee River in Florence County- Pamplico, South Carolina. Dominion has representatives offering property owners as low as $345 dollars while paying county officials $10,000.00.  If built, it will devalue  property owners' land, increase health concerns, raise their utility bills, and overall will have no benefit for residents.

Dominion Energy claims to provide affordable, safe, and clean energy, but has a history of predatory rate hikes, accidents, environmental disasters, and insistence on investing in dirty fossil fuels like coal and gas. This proposed pipeline we talk about is not formally a part of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, ACP, which is Dominion Energy’s huge project; they have many smaller projects in several states, including the one we talk about here in SC.

Compressor stations are necessary for pipelines and they are above-ground facilities that are typically located every 50 to 100 miles along natural gas transmission pipelines.

With Kathy we talk about why Dominion Energy wants to build the pipeline, the pressure Dominion is putting on landowners, the negative effects of the pipeline, and how she is showing and educating her neighbors that they have rights and don’t have to sign their land away.

Contact and connect with Kathy: [email protected] FB @KathyAndrews Twitter @KathyAndrews

Petition to Stop The Pipeline: https://www.change.org/p/blue-ridge-environmental-defense-league-tell-dominion-no-to-a-pipeline-in-pamplico-sc

Dominion Energy and Sierra Club: https://www.sierraclub.org/virginia/dominion

https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2019/05/dominion-s-energy-plan-focuses-too-heavily-fossil-fuels

Compressor Stations: https://extension.psu.edu/understanding-natural-gas-compressor-stations

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