The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Dominion Energy’s Inc.’s case to earn a key permit that would let the company’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline cross under the Appalachian Trail, according to Bloomberg.
The Supreme Court has agreed to rule on this permit, following a federal appeals court’s decision to throw out the permit, determining the U.S. Forest Service lacked the authority to approve the right-of-way for the $7.5 billion project.
The ruling on the case will also affect EQM Midstream Partners LP’s planned $4.6 billion Mountain Valley gas pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia.
Dominion is developing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline with Duke Energy Corp. and Southern Co. If completed, it would carry as much as 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day from the Marcellus shale basin in West Virginia to customers in North Carolina and Virginia.
Learn more: Bloomberg > Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Gas Pipeline Gets High Court Hearing
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