Posts Tagged ‘Pipeline’
Lawsuit challenges TVA plan to build methane gas plant at site of massive Kingston industrial spill
The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of Appalachian Voices, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Sierra Club, sued the Tennessee Valley Authority today for failing to consider cleaner and more cost-effective power options before deciding to build a new polluting methane gas plant at its Kingston location.
Read MoreMountain Valley Pipeline’s restoration work causing even more issues
According to landowners along the path of the pipeline and state regulators, MVP continues its documented history of shoddy work and water quality violations in this final stage of construction.
Read MorePublic informational meeting to be held on July 23 to discuss Transco Pipeline Expansion project
A 54-mile methane gas pipeline and compressor stations are planned to cut through parts of North Carolina and Virginia in a project called the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, also known as the Transco Pipeline Expansion.
Read MoreReport outlines the many challenges and risks to the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 20, 2022 CONTACT Chelsea Barnes, (614) 205-6424, chelsea@appvoices.org Jessica Sims, (804) 356-1228, jessica@appvoices.org Today, Appalachian Voices released a report detailing the unique and complex obstacles standing in the way of completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, despite its backers’ false assertion that construction is nearly complete. The report, “The Status and…
Read MoreVirginia’s draft permit for Mountain Valley Pipeline won’t protect water resources, groups say
CONTACT: David Sligh, Wild Virginia, david@wildvirginia.org, (434) 964-7455 Cat McCue, Appalachian Voices, cat@appvoices.org, (434) 293-6373 Russell Chisholm, Protect Our Water Heritage Rights, russell@powhr.org, (540) 404-2727 The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) today released a draft decision on a request for a water quality certification for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). This certification request is…
Read MoreBiden must stop methane pipelines to deliver on climate change and environmental justice
In the USA Today, Indigenous leader Crystal Cavalier and climate scientist Michael Mann team up for this op-ed calling out the Mountain Valley Pipeline as a nail in America’s climate coffin and environmental injustice.
Read MoreNorth Carolina again rejects fracked-gas Mountain Valley Pipeline extension
CONTACT: Cat McCue, Sr. Communications Strategist, 434-293-6373, cat@appvoices.org The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) today announced its second rejection of the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s efforts to extend into North Carolina. MVP, which still faces legal and procedural hurdles to obtain all the permits for its currently planned path, had proposed extending its 300-mile…
Read MoreFERC setting up an “Office of Public Participation.” After 40 years.
Congress told FERC 40 years ago to start an “Office of Public Participation.” The agency is finally doing it — after decades of approving dirty-gas pipelines all across the country.
Read MoreClean water advocates sue to stop political pressure to bail out Mountain valley Pipeline
Washington, D.C. — Community and clean water advocates today sued to reverse a U.S. Forest Service decision about the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) that was rushed through under political pressure from the lame duck Trump administration. The Forest Service announced today it approved a plan for the controversial fracked gas MVP to build through…
Read MoreTrump administration rams through final Forest Service analysis of controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline
After almost 8,000 people called on the U.S. Forest Service this fall to prevent the fracked-gas Mountain Valley Pipeline from cutting through public land in Virginia, the agency today issued a final report supporting changes to its own environmental standards to accommodate the project. The agency’s Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement confirms its plan to…
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