Mvp

A federal appeals court this week affirmed a lower court’s ruling in Virginia to dismiss yet another challenge brought by a group of landowners and a trust against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP).

In yet another setback for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has rescinded permission for all construction activities in the Jefferson National Forest (JNF) in West Virginia and Virginia.

EQT Corp. said on Thursday the start of service on the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) would be delayed by three months, as the project’s sponsors work through a pending legal challenge from the Sierra Club and other opponents.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Huntington District has reinstated the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s (MVP) Nationwide Permit (NWP) 12 for four river crossings in West Virginia, but a stay issued last month by a federal appeals court remains in effect.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) has written Chairman Kevin McIntyre asking that FERC grant rehearing requests on the Appalachia-to-Southeast Atlantic Coast (ACP) and Mountain Valley pipeline (MVP) projects.

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) said Wednesday it will waive its Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 401 water quality certification permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), an apparent about-face that comes less than two months after the agency said it would withdraw and reevaluate its review.

West Virginia has officially thrown out Mountain Valley Pipeline’s Section 401 water quality certification (WQC) and will start over with a review of the project’s application after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted the agency’s motion to invalidate the certificate.

In a pair of orders handed down late Friday, FERC approved the Appalachian-to-Southeast Atlantic Coast (ACP) and Mountain Valley pipelines (MVP) in a rare split decision.

FERC’s draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC (MVP) is incomplete or insufficient, a number of participating federal agencies told the Commission last week.