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Columbia Seeks to Replace 48 Miles of Pipe in Southeast Va.
In a prefiling made with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) made Wednesday, Columbia Gas Transmission informed FERC that its new Virginia Reliability Project would add 100 MMcf/d of incremental capacity on Columbia’s system to serve delivery points in southeast Virginia, namely Virginia Natural Gas (VNG). Columbia’s project, which includes two new compressor units and replacing 48 miles of existing pipeline, works hand-in-glove with a project proposed the same day by Transco (see today’s lead story: Transco Pipe Seeks to Build New Compressor Boosting Flows in Va.).
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In August, Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP, owned by Equitrans Midstream) filed a subpoena in federal court to find out who recklessly promoted a meeting of a group of anti-pipeline zealots, encouraging them to gather close to (50 feet from) explosives being used to blast through rock to install MVP, putting themselves and workers in harm’s way and causing delays to pipeline construction (see 
Another MVP (Mountain Valley Pipeline) story in the news today. In August 2018 MDN told you about a group of six Franklin County, VA landowners who sued to block the construction of MVP across their property (see 
In July the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved a plan by Dominion Energy to clean up and “undo” the work done for the company’s previous Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project (see 
The Democrat mainstream media was striking out by using the trite phrase of “blast zone” to try and scare people who happen to live near the path of a simple, safe natural gas pipeline, like that proposed in Hanover County, Virginia. As the lefty libs so often do, they’ve changed their language in an effort to change how people perceive such a project. It’s no longer a blast zone, now (drum roll please)…it’s an INCINERATION zone! Yeah baby! You’ll be fried to a crisp if you live near a pipeline and that pipeline experiences a leak and explodes. So pathetic.
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 
For years landowners who have been organized and hoodwinked by Big Green groups have attacked the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project on its legally and federally delegated right to use eminent domain to condemn property for landowners who have refused to negotiate in good faith. One such case remains, holding on…just barely.
MDN first told you about plans to build the Chickahominy Power Station, a 1,650 megawatt state-of-the-art natural gas-fired power plant planned for Charles City County (near Richmond, Va.) in June 2018 (see 
A natural gas-fired electric power plant planned for Charles City County (near Richmond, Va.) by NOVI Energy known as C4GT (Charles City Combined-Cycle Gas Turbine) is officially dead as of last month (see 
Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is a 303-mile pipeline from West Virginia to southern Virginia that is 92% complete (in-the-ground). The pipeline is targeted to be in-service by the middle of next year. The project is currently stalled, temporarily, due to frivolous lawsuits filed by disgusting Big Green groups like the Sierra Club. MVP Southgate is an extension to MVP that will travel an additional 75 miles from southern Virginia (where the current MVP terminates) into North Carolina. MVP Southgate has not yet broken ground. The project has been opposed by North Carolina and the same mish-mash of “environmental” groups that opposed MVP. However, this week there are two fewer groups opposed to Southgate than there was last week.
In a second victory for Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) over the past week, a federal judge rejected a request by a Virginia landowner for emergency power to block construction of MVP across the landowner’s property on Bent Mountain. Last week we told you the landowner claimed blasting and construction for the pipeline on his property could “explode the headwaters of Bottom Creek.” We noted the same landowner has been suing to block MVP on his property since at least early 2019. The judge told him that her court was not the proper jurisdiction to resolve the dispute.