- – E&E Energywire – 7/20/21
EPA challenge muddles future of Mountain Valley pipeline
- – E&E Energywire – 7/12/21
Hadwin: MVP: The whole story
- – The Roanoke Times – 7/18/21
Army Corps extends time for VA DEQ to act on MVP 401 request
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has granted the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) an additional six months for it to act on a request for water quality certification for the new water crossings proposed for the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
Virginia certification of MVP water crossings still uncertain
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has responded to a May 13 request from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) as to whether DEQ intended to require for the Mountain Valley Pipeline a new certificate under section 401 of the Clean Water Act concerning the project’s proposal to change the waterbody crossing method for the project at 120 stream or river crossings,
Mountain Valley Pipeline follows familiar playbook: Push pollution into poor and minority communities
- – Virginia Mercury – 7/2/21
Limpert: DEQ ignores health threats
- – The Roanoke Times – 7/4/21
VA DEQ urged to require certification for MVP water crossings
Fifteen conservation organizations, including ABRA, wrote the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) on June 21 arguing that the agency must require certification under section 401 of the Clean Water Act for the Mountain Valley Pipeline to tunnel under nearly 100 streams and wetlands in Virginia.
West Virginia Rivers releases new video on MVP water violations
West Virginia Rivers Coalition, an ABRA member, released this week an excellent video documenting the serious stream sediment violations – 50 incidents – that have occurred because of construction activity of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The video (2 ½ minutes) depicts the significant inadequacy of the MVP’s attempts to control dangerous sediment from fouling West Virginia streams and rivers that are in the path of the project.
Concerns expressed about MVP compressor station permit hearing
A planned July 7 hearing by the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board on the proposed Lambert Compressor Station (LCS) for the Mountain Valley Pipeline has received strong criticism from a cross-section of conservation and citizen organizations. In a June 23 letter to David Paylor,