Tag: Peter Galuszka
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Huge Dominion Pipeline Project Loses Partner
By Peter Galuszka The delayed Atlantic Coast Pipeline is undergoing a major change due to rising costs and legal delays – The Southern Company, based in Atlanta, is backing out of the project as an equity partner. According to an announcement late Tuesday, Dominion Energy will acquire The Southern Company’s 5% stake in the natural…
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Thoughts on the Big Pro Gun Rally
By Peter Galuszka I was tempted to go the large anti gun-control rally but I had other work to do for customers and I didn’t want to get caught in a traffic jam. I have been to a few of these things before – some violent, some not. There seems to be a certain amount…
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“Unite the Right” Revisited?
By Peter Galuszka Think” of it as “Unite the Right 2.0.” Thousands of protesters from Virginia and beyond the state will be converging on Richmond, many packing heat, to support “Second Amendment Sanctuaries,” which are cities or counties that refuse any law passed by the Democratically controlled General Assembly to pass any law that in…
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Dominion Plans Four New Gas Units
By Peter Galuszka Despite its recent advertising campaign rebranding itself as a “green” utility, Dominion Energy is planning to build four natural gas “peaking units” costing $600 million at its Chesterfield County generating station. The utility filed for a permit for the State Air Pollution Control Board, according to the Chesterfield Observer. The gas plants…
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Rethinking Afghanistan
By Peter Galuszka On Feb. 15, 1989, I was standing amid reporters and people waving red flags and holding flowers at the northern end of a metal bridge linking Uzbekistan with Afghanistan. A row of Soviet BTR armored personnel carriers streamed home as their crews waved and smiled. These were the last troops to withdraw…
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The Gas Boom Is Over
By Peter Galuszka The boom in shale natural gas is over, reports The New York Times. The trend raises more questions about billions of dollars worth of gas-related projects in Virginia, including Dominion’s plans to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and other firms’ efforts to place two big generating stations near Charles City. The boom…
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S&P Global Slams Dominion for Gas Plants
By Peter Galuszka International financial analysis firm S&P Global has issued a scathing report criticizing Dominion Energy Virginia for over emphasizing future electricity demand and proposing unneeded natural gas-fired generating plants. According to S&P: “An examination of State Corporation Commission, or SCC, records; Dominion’s past integrated resource plans, or IRPs; campaign finance documents; and independent…
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How Influence Is Played in Richmond
By Peter Galuszka It helps to have an influential father, especially if you are Peter Farrell. The 36 year-old former Republican delegate and financial investor has been named to the Board of Visitors of Virginia Commonwealth University by Gov. Ralph Northam. Northam, a Democrat, has accepted thousands of dollars in political donations from Thomas Farrell,…
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The Rank Hypocrisy of Rural Gun Sanctuaries
by Peter Galuszka When Donald Trump ran for president on a platform of virulent xenophobia, one of the rallying cries he favored was the idea that liberal-minded localities were forming “sanctuary cities” and would not cooperate with federal immigration officials on the prowl for undocumented aliens. Right-wing Virginia politicians, notably Corey A. Stewart, who led…
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How No Regulation Toasted Vaping
By Peter Galuszka There’s a mighty disconnect between being innovative in developing new products and putting the buying public in danger. We are often lectured about the benefits brought by industrial creativity unfettered by regulation on this blog and elsewhere but that isn’t always the case. In fact, doing so without meaningful regulation can spell…
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BEELZEBUB!
By Peter Galuszka The Lord of the Flies is upon us! We have been plunged into the darkness by a tsunami of moderate to progressive Democrats who have taken both the House of Delegates and the state Senate for the first time since 1993. This means that Democrats now control everything from the offices of…
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Send in the Carriers! What Carriers?
By Peter Galuszka The stunning slaying of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the ultra-violent Islamic State terrorist leader, on Oct. 25 by U.S. Special Forces in northwestern Syria was the most spectacular such endeavor since Osama bin-Linden was dispatched in Pakistan in 2011. President Donald Trump, under attack for withdrawing most American forces from war-torn Syria, got…
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Bye, Bye, Smokey Stacks
By Peter Galuszka Many years ago, when I was a young cub reporter at The Virginian-Pilot, I had a lonely assignment that had me spending some of my mornings watching big ships come and go into Chesapeake Bay. I worked a night police beat until at least midnight with Wednesdays and Thursdays off, ruining my…
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More in the Nefarious Hunt for DARK MONEY!
By Peter Galuszka Sound the klaxon horn at Bacon’s Rebellion! More DARK MONEY is coming to pollute the state’s glorious electoral process. Emily’s List, a PAC supporting female Democratic candidates, has announced that it is planning on donating an extra $1.5 million to help flip the GOP-controlled Virginia General Assembly. Along with another $600,000 Emily’s…
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The Last of The Pistol Packin’ Mamas?
By Peter Galuszka Part buffoon, part populist, state Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, has for years represented white resentment against modern times, Tea Party-style. She’s picked up on every bad feeling out there and amplified it, including pent-up anger against minorities, immigrants, government workers, women’s rights and gun control advocates and more. She’s had a weekly…