- – E&E News – 9/6/19
As Pipeline Construction Booms, Citizens Take Inspections Into Their Own Hands
- – WV Public Broadcasting – 8/29/19
“VioBlitz” Uncovers Over 100 Potential MVP Violations
Impacted landowners, concerned citizens, and trained volunteer monitors participated in a “VioBlitz” over the August 9-11 weekend. Sponsored by the West Virginia Rivers Coalition, an ABRA member and a partner in the ABRA CSI program (Compliance Surveillance Initiative), participants traveled portions of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and documented as many permit violations as possible over a 3-day period.
MVP’s violations show ‘complete absence of any and all meaningful regulation’
- – Virginia Mercury – 7/15/19
Complaint Filed with FERC Over MVP Violations, Water Board Action Sought
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has been asked to revoke the certificate of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) in a Formal Complaint filed June 21 by Wild Virginia, Preserve Craig, Indian Creek Watershed Association and two private landowners.
Pipeline opponents, spurned by the state, ask federal agency to stop work
- – The Roanoke Times – 6/22/19
Five years and counting
“Holy cow” is how the chairman of the Highland County Board of Supervisors reacted to the news that Dominion Energy planned to build a natural gas pipeline through his county, according to a May 29, 2014 news story in The Recorder newspaper.
Hileman: MVP renders the law meaningless
- – The Roanoke Times – 5/23/19
“Yesterday, the mountains in Southwest Virginia visited Richmond, and today, they came to Northern Virginia!”
- – Blue Virginia – 5/19/19
Mountain Valley agrees to pay $266,000 for pollution problems in W.Va.
- – The Roanoke Times – 5/14/19