The Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) are “climate disasters,” according to new studies released February 15 by Oil Change International (OCI). The studies conclude that the ACP and MVP “would together contributed a much greenhouse gas pollution as 45 coal-fired power plants – some 158 million metric tons a year.” OCI points out that the methodology that has been used in the past by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to measure climate impacts is “out of date” and “is failing to protect communities and citizens around the country.”
OCI further states:
FERC’s assessment of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted by the Atlantic Coast pipeline in the project’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) was woefully inadequate.