WV U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin Gives Attaboy to FERC re MVP Decision
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat, has (for months) forcefully pushed the issue of completing the 94% done-and-in-the-ground Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project, a 303-mile pipeline from WV into Virginia. In early March Manchin let all five Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) commissioners know of his displeasure that MVP, along with other pipeline projects, is delayed (see U.S. Sen. Manchin Rips FERC Commissioners Over Climate Policies). About a week and a half later while speaking at a conference in Texas, Manchin told FERC Chairman Richard “Dick” Glick to “do his damn job” with respect to approving natural gas pipelines like MVP (see Joe Manchin Tells (Off) Dick Glick: “Do Your Damn Job!” re Pipes). Manchin’s pressure worked. Last Friday FERC’s five commissioners voted unanimously to allow MVP to change methods and use underground horizontal directional drilling (HDD) to complete the installation of the pipeline below 183 streams and wetlands (see FERC Approves MVP Use of HDD Construction at 183 Streams/Wetlands).
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Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia are all scrambling to form working groups or other alliances in an attempt to be THE state chosen for one of four regional hydrogen hubs funded by the recently passed so-called Biden infrastructure bill (see 
In January a new Senate bill was introduced in the West Virginia Senate requiring the entire state government, all of the various state agencies and governmental departments, to stop doing business with any bank or investment firm that refuses to support coal, oil, and natural gas companies (see 
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