by Doug Thompson | Oct 22, 2014 | Musings, News
If the often-vague and always sidestepping executives of EQT Corp. and NextEra Energy thought Franklin County would be a cakewalk for their natural pipeline express running from West Virginia to Chatham, they got a hardcore lesson of what country folks think of...
by Doug Thompson | Oct 20, 2014 | Musings
It appears Franklin County administrator Rick Huff passes on misinformation for a living. Or maybe he just passes on information from energy companies without taking the necessary trouble of verifying their information with more credible sources. In an interview with...
by Doug Thompson | Oct 8, 2014 | Musings
As more and more new proposals for the Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline showed a shift of the route through going further and further north, it started to look like EQT and its partners were looking for a way to avoid Floyd County and shift the route through...
by Doug Thompson | Aug 14, 2014 | Musings
The proposed natural gas pipeline through Floyd County got a double hit Thursday morning with page one stories in The Floyd Press and The Roanoke Times. Both articles highlight the efforts of Mara Robbins and others in opposing the 42-inch gas transmission line that...
