Mountain Valley Pipeline is seeking a new panel of judges to hear the next proceedings in its legal battle with environmentalists. The post Mountain Valley Pipeline seeks new judges to clear regulatory hurdles appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter. This post appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter.
Read More...Equitrans Midstream Corp. announced it will seek new permits for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, delaying its completion to 2023. The post Mountain Valley Pipeline seeks new permits, delays completion to 2023 appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter. This post appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter.
Read More...Equitrans may have to clear more regulatory hurdles to obtain a key water crossing permit to complete the Mountain Valley Pipeline project, according to Pittsburgh Business Times. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recommended to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that plans for the project may not be sufficient to comply with the Clean
Read More...Equitrans Midstream Corp. recently announced the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s projected in-service date has been pushed back again, according to the Charleston Gazette-Mail. The company announced it was moving its targeted in-service date from the end of 2021 to the summer of 2022. It predicts the delay will add at least $200 million to the now
Read More...The Mountain Valley Pipeline will abandon its plan to use a blanket permit to cross nearly 500 streams and wetlands and instead seek individual approvals for each crossing, according to CBS 19 News. The decision is expected to make the project, which has already been plagued by regulatory and legal delays, more costly and time-consuming.
Read More...The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rendered a 2-1 majority vote last month to allow construction along a 17-mile portion at the northern end of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, according to the Chatham Star Tribune. The FERC issued a stop-work order in 2018 that halted construction within a 25-mile work zone in between two Jefferson National
Read More...Analysts believe stream-crossing rules proposed by environmental regulators in Virginia may delay the startup of the Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline to 2022, according to Reuters. Incidentally, the companies involved with the project are sticking with their late-2021 target. Natalie Cox, a spokeswoman at Equitrans Midstream Corp, one of the companies building the pipeline, said
Read More...Last week, the United States Forest Service released a final supplemental environmental impact statement for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, bringing the project one step closer to resolving a permitting setback that has prevented construction on a small portion routed through Jefferson National Forest, according to Natural Gas Intelligence. The USFS’s recent determination clears the way
Read More...Federal regulators and West Virginia agencies are once again rewriting environmental rules to push the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline through the permitting process, according to ProPublica. Last month the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that environmental groups are likely to prevail in a case arguing federal and state regulators wrongly approved the
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. Will Tree-Sitting Pipeline Opponents Be Dragged Down? Two and half years after we ran a contest here about how to best
Read More...Equitrans Midstream Corporation recently announced the cost estimate of the Mountain Valley Pipeline is now between $5.8 billion and $6 billion and the project isn’t anticipated to be completed until the second half of 2021, according to the Pennsylvania Business Report. The cost of the Mountain Valley Pipeline was estimated to be $3.7 billion when
Read More...EQT is in discussions with up to five different unnamed parties to sell some or all of its contracted capacity in the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline that is expected to begin service next year, according to Kallanish Energy. EQT CFO David Khani made the announcement last week in an earnings call with analysts and the
Read More...The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reissued a stream crossing permit that the stalled $5.7 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline needs to finish construction, according to Kallanish Energy. The Mountain Valley Pipeline received three permits total from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The permits will allow the natural gas pipeline to cross wetlands and nearly
Read More...On Tuesday, Equitrans Midstream Corp. announced it still plans on completing the $5.4-$5.7 billion Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia early next year, according to Reuters. The company’s statement comes after a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to issue a new Biological Opinion on Sept. 4, which the
Read More...The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has issued a new Endangered Species Act review of the Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC’s 2 million Dth/d, 303-mile Appalachian natural gas pipeline, according to Natural Gas Intelligence. The USFWS notified the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week that it had finished drafting a current Biological Opinion (BiOp) and
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