The 303-mile, $7.85 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline has received final federal approval and is set to begin piping 2 billion cubic feet of fracked shale natural gas a day from West Virginia into Virginia this summer.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Energy Projects Director Terry Turpin officially ended a decade of regulatory and legal contention over the project in a June 11 letter informing Equitrans Midstream Corp. it could turn on the pipeline’s spigots.
The company “has adequately stabilized the areas disturbed by construction and that restoration and stabilization of the construction work area is proceeding satisfactorily,” Mr. Turpin said in the letter. “I approve Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC’s request” to start operations….
