MVP Southgate Pipeline Gets Boost from 4th Circuit re NC Permit

Last August the North Carolina Dept. of Environmental Quality (DEQ) rejected a water permit for Equitrans’ proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) Southgate project (see Politics: North Carolina Rejects MVP Southgate Pipe Permits). As we said at the time, although the DEQ tried to disguise the rejection using lame excuses, the rejection was political and prompted by NC Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper. Turns out not even the Dems on the federal U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit could stomach the transparent political motivation and last week overturned the DEQ's rejection, telling the DEQ to do it over again.

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