A lawmaker serving on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform is questioning FERC over its protections for landowners impacted by natural gas pipeline construction.

Mountain Valley Pipeline

In a letter late last week to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman James Danly, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), chair of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties subcommittee, asked the agency to provide information about its procedures to “resolve conflicts between landowners and natural gas pipeline construction companies.”

Raskin specifically raised questions relating to certificate extensions, restoration delays, dispute resolution and “disposition of property for canceled projects.”

Citing the recent two-year extension granted to the Mountain Valley Pipeline, necessary in large part because of...