With its revised Endangered Species Act review now completed, Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC (MVP) is seeking FERC authorization to restart construction activities that have been on hold since an October 2019 order.

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In a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Tuesday, MVP asked the agency to allow construction on the 300-mile, 2 million Dth/d interstate natural gas pipeline to resume by the end of the week to allow the company to “maximize final restoration and complete as many activities as possible before winter.”

Now that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has completed an updated Biological Opinion for the pipeline — a process set in motion after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit stayed the Biological Opinion issued to the pipeline in 2017 — the...