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Fish Species Antis Tried to Use to Block MVP No Longer Endangered

Going back nearly six years, Big Green tried to block construction of the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) in Virginia by arguing some of the stream crossings threatened the very existence of the Roanoke logperch, a large “darter” fish that grows to about 6 inches long (see our Roanoke logperch stories here). The Roanoke logperch…

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MVP Restarted Va. Construction Aug 4th, 8 Stream Crossings So Far

An Act of Congress (the Fiscal Responsibility Act) cleared away the remaining obstacles to completing the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (see Equitrans Announces Mountain Valley Pipe to Get Completed in 2023). After a final appeal by antis with their colluding buddies of the 4th Circuit threatened to block the Fiscal Responsibility Act’s MVP provisions, the…

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Final Lawsuit Against MVP Holds on by a Thread in DC Circuit

In April, the U.S. Supreme Court breathed new life into a long-running lawsuit funded by Big Green groups using (abusing) a small group of uppity Virginia landowners who argue the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) had no right to delegate authority to Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to use eminent domain to cross land, including the…

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Radicals File Lawsuit Response Challenging MVP Debt Ceiling Law

The left thought it had won the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) battle and had stopped this 94% completed pipeline project cold. But then Congress passed the “debt ceiling” bill that forces the completion of MVP (see Equitrans Announces Mountain Valley Pipe to Get Completed in 2023). Big Green’s favored approach to block MVP is to…

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USFS Approves Plan for MVP to Build Through Jefferson Natl Forest

A small bit of progress to report about the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), which stretches from Wetzel County, WV, to Pittsylvania County, VA. Yesterday the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) issued its latest (third!) approval for MVP to traverse a piddly 3.5 miles of the federally-owned Jefferson National Forest. We have no doubt that radicalized…

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Equitrans: Path to Finish MVP in 2023 “Still Exists” but “Narrower”

During yesterday’s quarterly phone call with analysts to discuss the 1Q23 performance of Equitrans Midstream, a big topic of conversation was the 94% completed (but stalled) Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). Equitrans (builder of MVP) CEO Thomas Karam said, “The path to an MVP completion during 2023 is narrower but based on the diligent and comprehensive…

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Radical Anti Groups Challenge USFWS Permit for MVP Third Time

You knew it was only a matter of time. On March 1, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) issued a 297-page biological opinion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s (MVP) potential impact on threatened and endangered species if the 94% complete pipeline is allowed to finish (see USFWS Issues 3rd Finding that MVP Won’t Hurt…

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USFWS Issues 3rd Finding that MVP Won’t Hurt Protected Species

Will the third time be the charm? Probably not. On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) issued a 297-page biological opinion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s (MVP) potential impact on threatened and endangered species if the 94% complete pipeline is allowed to finish. We have a full copy of the opinion below. It…

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Will Manchin’s Plan to Save MVP Work? Legal Experts Doubtful

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (Traitor Joe) from West Virginia made a huge gamble in agreeing to vote for the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Manchin got an agreement from Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to allow a vote on a separate bill sometime in the fall that will help the stalled 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline…

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Biden White House Remains Silent on Fate of Mountain Valley Pipeline

Yesterday MDN brought you the news that Equitrans Midstream, builder of the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project from West Virginia to southern Virginia, has decided to roll the dice for a third time with the radical judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit by applying for a new permit to…

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FERC Approves MVP Use of HDD Construction at 183 Streams/Wetlands

We didn’t see this one coming! Must be the intense pressure from U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) had the intended effect (see Joe Manchin Tells (Off) Dick Glick: “Do Your Damn Job!” re Pipes). On Friday, FERC commissioners voted (unanimously) to authorize the completion for part of the remaining…

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4th Circus Rejects MVP Appeal for En Banc Hearing – Supremes Next?

The clown judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (i.e. the 4th Circus) have done it again. Two weeks ago Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) asked the full court, all of the judges (called en banc) to rehear a couple of recent decisions by three of their clown members (see MVP Appeals…

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4th Circuit Throws Out Plan for Safer MVP Drilling re Candy Darter

Even when we’re joking about the leftist clown judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (i.e. the 4th Circus), we’re right! A few weeks ago we told you about the candy darter, a small fishie on the threatened and endangered species list that lives in a few creeks under which 303-mile…

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Antis Proud of Hassling Mountain Valley Pipeline with 57 Lawsuits

It’s “mission accomplished” for anti-fossil fuel zealots who say even if the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from Wetzel County, WV to Pittsylvania County, VA gets completed (now 94% done), their constant lawsuits and hassling of the project has ensured no one else in their right mind will attempt another big pipeline project like MVP–ever…

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Radical Green Groups Challenge MVP in 4th Circus Court – Again

Here we go again. Early this year the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) issued a permit to Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to run through 3.5 miles of woodlands, and under the Appalachian Trail, in the Jefferson National Forest in Monroe County in West Virginia, in and Giles and Montgomery counties in Virginia (see US Forest Service…

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VA DEQ Hearings for MVP Water Permit Draw Pipe Supporters

In August the Virginia Dept. of Environmental Quality (DEQ) issued a draft Section 401 of the federal Clean Water Act permit that would approve plans to let the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) finish its work in the state (see Virginia DEQ Draft Water Permit for MVP Signals Project Approval). The DEQ is currently accepting…