The Mountain Valley Pipeline(MVP) project is a natural gas pipeline system extending approximately 303 miles from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia and is an interstate pipeline regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). MVP under construction and owned by Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC (Mountain Valley), a joint venture of EQM Midstream Partners, LP; NextEra Capital Holdings, Inc.; With Edison Broadcast, Inc.; WGL Midstream; and RGC
Midstream, LLC. EQM Midstream Partners will operate the pipeline and own a significant interest in the joint venture.
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has issued the final state-level permit needed for the Mountain Valley Pipeline to resume construction, according to Gov. Jim Justice.
The WVDEP issued the project’s Section 401 Water Quality Certification last Thursday and submitted it to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Justice said during his administration briefing Wednesday.
The Mountain Valley Pipeline(MVP) project Will help to transport characteristic gas from the Mountain State to markets within the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic districts.
In West Virginia, the MVP’s course is arranged to incorporate Braxton, Doddridge, Fayette, Greenbrier, Harrison, Lewis, Monroe, Nicholas, Summers, Webster and Wetzel districts.
The project has repeatedly faced delays, setbacks and interruptions due to regulatory objections from environmental activists and other stakeholders opposing the pipeline.
Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sherry Moore Capito (R-WV) are nearly complete by including the pipeline in the Debt Ceiling Accord, also known as the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023. Said to be certain.
“Despite delay after delay, we have continued to fight to get this critical natural gas pipeline operational,” Capito said in a statement. It’s an important victory,” he said.
When the The Mountain Valley Pipeline(MVP) project was first announced in 2014, developers said they expected it to cost about $3.5 billion and be completed by the end of 2018.
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