Construction

All sides continue to maneuver to strengthen their positions related to the nearly completed $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline, which Native American tribes want stopped in the midst of its construction covering four states, while backers and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) now argue already was thoroughly vetted to protect cultural and burial sites sacred to the tribes.

A Moundsville Power LLC representative told local government officials in West Virginia this week that construction of its 595 MW natural gas-fired power plant is likely to be delayed as it deals with an appeal to its air quality permit, according to reports.

The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) has authorized a subsidiary of Switzerland-based Advanced Power AG to construct a 1,105 MW natural gas-fired power plant in Northeast Ohio’s rural Columbiana County.

Algonquin Gas Transmission LLC told FERC that it erred when it tried to extract a broken drill stem from under the Hudson River last month during work on the Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) Project. The company pledged to comply with all of the agency’s future directives for the project.

FERC issued a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and the related Equitrans Expansion Project (EEP) on Friday, adding that while the projects would result in some adverse environmental impacts, they could be adequately mitigated.

Construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, which would carry Bakken Shale crude oil, was given the go-ahead by a judge to proceed on Friday, but the Obama administration immediately stepped in and called a halt.

The Labors’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) and a newly created activist group, Bold Iowa, are bumping heads over the four-state, nearly 1,200-mile Dakota Access oil pipeline that is now under construction.

Regulatory and court challenges swirled around the four-state, 1,172-mile Dakota Access LLC oil pipeline project on Thursday, although for the most part construction aimed at completion by year-end continued.

FERC issued a notice of schedule Friday for the Appalachian Basin-to-Southeast Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC (ACP) and related Supply Header Project, setting a June 30, 2017, deadline to complete a final environmental impact statement.