Twenty-two conservation groups, including ABRA and several of its members, filed comments on November 19 with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the permit application for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to cross rivers and streams under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.
WV Highlands Conservancy voices concerns over forest project
A proposed project in the Monongahela National Forest (MNF) has evoked strong concerns from the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy (Conservancy), the state’s most prominent conservation organization and a founding member of ABRA. The stated purpose by the MNF of the Gauley Healthy Forest Restoration Project (GHFRP),
Environmental concerns dominate Army Corps public comment hearing on key permit for Mountain Valley Pipeline
- – Charleston Gazette-Mail – 11/2/21
REMINDER: Army Corps hearings for MVP on November 1 and 4
Public hearings by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding the permit application submitted by Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC for its proposed pipeline to cross certain bodies of water along the project’s path in West Virginia and Virginia will be held November 1,
Gubernatorial candidates comment, or choose not to, on Mountain Valley Pipeline
- – The Roanoke Times – 10/9/21
Conservation groups comment on ACP restoration proposal
Fifteen conservation groups were represented in comments filed September 13 by the Southern Environmental Law Center, Appalachian Mountain Advocates and Chesapeake Bay Foundation regarding the Draft Supplemental Impact Statement for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline route that was published on July 23 by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Comments due September 13 on draft SEIS for ACP restoration
Comments on the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) for restoration work on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline route are due on Monday, September 13. The DESIS was published July 23 (for background and a link to the draft, click here).
DEQ taking public comments on Mountain Valley Pipeline stream crossings
- – The Roanoke Times – 8/29/21
Comment period for key Mountain Valley Pipeline water permits is here
- – Charleston Gazette-Mail – 5/24/21
What FERC needs to hear about the ACP Restoration Plan
The public comment period on the proposed plan for the restoration of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) route, which was formally announced by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in a March 8 Federal Register notice and preliminary discussed in the March 4 ABRA Update,