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Court Filing Says MVP Construction to Restart by End of June
On June 8, the West Virginia Dept. of Environmental Protection issued a renewed Section 401 water quality certification for the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project. In a court filing by MVP that shoves the news in the faces of the corrupt Democrat three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the judges are told as soon as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issues a Section 404 water permit (deadline is June 24), construction will resume to finish up the final 6% of the MVP project. And there’s not a darned thing the 4th Circuit can do to stop it. Sweet victory. Sweet justice.
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