Equitrans Signals Giving Up on MVP Southgate – Pulls Eminent Domain

This is, indeed, a sad day. Last Thursday, Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC (MVP), which is majority owned by and is operated by Equitrans Midstream Corp., filed a notice to voluntarily dismiss eminent domain proceedings against landowner holdouts in North Carolina for land needed to build an extension of MVP into the state, called MVP Southgate. An Equitrans spokesman said the company hasn't given up on the Southgate extension. We don't believe it for a New York minute. We've seen this movie before when PennEast Pipeline canceled eminent domain, first in Pennsylvania (see PennEast Stops Eminent Domain Lawsuits in PA – What Does it Mean), then a month later in New Jersey (see Troubling: PennEast Pipeline Withdraws NJ Eminent Domain Lawsuits). In the case of PennEast, canceling eminent domain proceedings was a prelude to canceling the project, which happened a short time later.

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