MVP the Template to Finish Pipelines Like NY’s Northern Access

National Fuel Gas Company (NFG) and its pipeline subsidiary Empire Pipeline have worked on a plan to build the Northern Access Pipeline since 2016. Northern Access is a 97-mile project from McKean County in Pennsylvania into and through Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Erie counties in New York that will flow Marcellus gas into New York State. The radicals of the Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul administrations have repeatedly delayed the project. NFG still wants to build it but needs more time. Last July, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave NFG an extra 35 months to get the project done--until Dec. 31, 2024 (see FERC Gives NFG Extra 3 Years to Build Northern Access Pipeline). The Sierra Club appealed FERC's time extension for the project, and it currently sits in court. Could an Act of Congress like the one that helped MVP finish help Northern Access too?

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