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FERC has ordered Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC (MVP) to stop nearly all construction along the entire 300-mile route just days after a federal court stayed key authorizations for the project.

Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC (MVP) appears to have satisfied federal regulators by limiting construction to protect endangered species, preventing for now what would be a costly stop-work order along the entire route for a delayed project to get more Appalachian shale gas to Southeast markets.

Environmental groups have filed a court challenge seeking to overturn federal approvals issued to the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) as part of a strategy to slow progress on another major natural gas project.

Equitrans Midstream Corp. CEO Thomas Karam said Tuesday he’s encouraged by the strategy EQT Corp.’s management team unveiled last week, saying it could partly insulate the company from a downturn if commodity prices continue to slide and curb more activity in the Appalachian Basin.

After an unfavorable federal court decision earlier this year, the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) probably won’t meet its target in-service date in late 2019, but the regulatory setbacks and rising costs could serve to further demonstrate the project’s value.

FERC expects to issue a final environmental impact statement (FEIS) by the end of this year for the Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC (MVP) Southgate Project, a proposed 73-mile add-on that would extend the 300-mile Appalachia-to-Southeast natural gas project from Virginia into North Carolina.

The embattled Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC (MVP) has notched a mark in the win column as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC) Circuit this week denied a series of petitions seeking to revisit the project’s FERC certificate.

The legal trouble surrounding Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC (MVP) continues to grow, with the project’s lead sponsor acknowledging in a regulatory filing that it now faces a federal criminal investigation in addition to a litany of other court challenges that threaten even longer service delays.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide this week whether it will hear a case challenging the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and the constitutionality of parts of the Natural Gas Act (NGA).