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Mountain Valley gets regulator’s approval for US natural gas pipeline

June 12, 2024

Reuters Mountain Valley can begin operating its $7.85 billion Virginia natural gas pipeline after receiving approval from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) according to a filing on Tuesday. The Mountain Valley project, the only big gas pipeline under construction in the U.S. Northeast, has encountered numerous regulatory and court fights that have stopped work several times since construction

US Supreme Court removes obstacle to Mountain Valley Pipeline

July 27, 2023

Nasdaq WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday removed an obstacle to completing the long-delayed Mountain Valley Pipeline, dealing a blow to environmental groups opposed to the West Virginia-to-Virginia pipeline led by energy company Equitrans Midstream ETRN.N. The justices granted Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC’s request to lift stays imposed by a lower court that had halted construction of a final short section of the

US Mountain Valley natgas pipe moving forward, capacity may be limited

June 23, 2023

Nasdaq The $6.6 billion Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia is on track to get final permits by Saturday, moving the long-delayed project closer to re-starting construction. Some analysts, however, said that even when the pipe enters service, which could be as soon as the end of 2023, it would only operate at half capacity or

North Carolina again denies permit for Mountain Valley gas pipe extension

May 3, 2021

Reuters The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) again denied Mountain Valley Pipeline’s (MVP) request for a water permit for its proposed Southgate natural gas pipeline project from Virginia to North Carolina. The DEQ first denied the request in August 2020. MVP appealed that decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which remanded the case back to

Proposed Virginia rules cloud Mountain Valley natgas pipeline startup

January 5, 2021

Reuters Virginia environmental regulators have proposed stream-crossing rules that analysts say may delay startup of the Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline to 2022, but the companies involved said on Tuesday they were sticking with their late-2021 target. Natalie Cox, a spokeswoman at Equitrans Midstream Corp, one of the companies building the pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia, said the Mountain

U.S. court allows Equitrans to keep building Mountain Valley natgas pipe

November 20, 2020

Reuters The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a motion to stay a permit for the $5.8-$6.0 billion Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia. Analysts said that court decision on Wednesday – not to stay the pipeline’s Biological Opinion – increases the odds Equitrans Midstream Corp can put the long-delayed project into service in the

Equitrans confirms early 2021 startup for Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline

August 4, 2020

Reuters U.S. pipeline company Equitrans Midstream Corp (ETRN.N) said on Tuesday it still expects to complete the $5.4 billion Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia in early 2021. Mountain Valley is one of several U.S. oil and gas pipelines delayed by regulatory and legal fights with environmental and local groups that found problems with federal permits

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