Another Appalachian pipeline project continues to face grassroots opposition from three families in southern West Virginia in an area removed from the shale gas boom in the northern part of the state. The group has filed lawsuits in Monroe and Summers counties courts against the Mountain Valley Pipeline to stop surveying efforts, claiming that the project has no benefit to the public and is therefore not eligible for eminent domain in the state. Mountain Valley is a joint venture of affiliates of EQT Corp. and NextEra Energy Inc. (see Shale Daily, Oct. 29, 2014; June 12, 2014). The 300-mile pipeline would deliver Marcellus and Utica Shale gas to markets in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast.