Chesapeake Bay Foundation Says Proposed Va. Power Plant is Racist
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 Richmond, Va. Gas-Fired Power Plant Project Gets Canceled). NOVI had been working on the 1,100-megawatt project for over six years. An even larger plant planned for the same general area, the 1,650 MW Chickahominy Power Station (a project of Balico) is still in the works (see Virginia Approves Marcellus-Fired Power Plant Project Near Richmond). Since anti-fossil fuelers can’t seem to block the Chickahominy project, they’re playing their last card, the card they reserve when all else fails. Antis say the Chickahominy plant is racist.
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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.
It’s been a long, tough slog for Equitrans Midstream’s Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a 303-mile pipeline from West Virginia into southern Virginia. The project is 92% done and in the ground. The final bits should be done within the next year and it will go online (if the crick don’t rise and the Lord don’t come) in mid-2022. One of the places where the pipeline was recently installed is close to a small clump of homes (called a “village”) in the Virginia mountains of Giles County. A place called Newport. A recent article in the Roanoke Times would have you believe the pipeline has somehow devastated the local community. It has not. We’re here to provide perspective on pipelines as good neighbors.
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.
Yet another lawsuit brought by one landowner against the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) asks the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia to block blasting and construction for the pipeline on his property, alleging it could “explode the headwaters of Bottom Creek.” The same landowner has been suing to block MVP since at least early 2019 by our quick check of the court records. This appears to be just one more attempt to use sketchy information to block the completion of a project that’s already 92% done and in the ground.
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 now officially dead. NOVI has been working on the 1,100-megawatt project for over six years. An even larger plant planned for the same general area, the 1,650 MW Chickahominy Power Station (a project of Balico) is still in the works (see 
On June 3 we published a post posing the question of whether or not the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would delay the already-years-delayed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) for yet another year (see 
Work has restarted on finishing the 92% completed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) in locations that don’t involve crossing creeks and rivers. One of the areas where work has restarted is the back side of Bent Mountain, south of Roanoke, Virginia. You would be amazed at the ingenuity and sheer guts it takes to build a pipeline–especially down the side of a mountain.
The Biden-controlled U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has just granted anti-fossil fuel zealots enough rope to strangle the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project, or enough rope to strangle themselves. We hope it’s the latter, we fear it may be the former. The “rope” in this case is time. The Army Corps announced Friday it will give antis an extra 30 days to comment on (complain, manipulate, lie about) a proposed water crossing permit for MVP in West Virginia and Virginia. Even with the extra 30 days antis still are not satisfied.
Nearly two weeks ago MDN reported that the final two “tree sitters” (a man and a woman) who were illegally blocking the path of Mountain Valley Pipeline by living for months/years at the top of several trees, were finally removed from the trees where they were living by law enforcement (see 
The Virginia Dept. of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is purposefully dragging its feet in an attempt to derail Equitrans’ Mountain Valley Pipeline project. DEQ is telling the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that it will take the rest of this year to review and plan for roughly 120 stream crossings in the state, requesting a time extension of at least six months to do so. If the Army Corps (now controlled by Joe Biden) agrees to DEQ’s request, there is no way MVP, currently 92% complete, can reach 100% completion by the end of this year.
The flaky Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Neil Chatterjee, who lately has taken to stabbing natural gas pipelines in the back (see