Another Delay, Another Tantrum for the Explosive MVP

Washington, D.C. — The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) wrote to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today, admitting another delay in construction and pleading with the agency to allow it to go in-service. The beleaguered pipeline project is nearly six years delayed and has more than doubled in budget. The pipeline claims its opponents are “mischaracterizing” their request to go in-service as “premature”, weeks after it exploded one of its failing pipes during hydrostatic testing.

Russell Chisholm, co-director of the Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights Coalition (POWHR) responded:

“Over the past decade, we have watched this reckless fossil fuel company botch the process to build a pipeline, and throw tantrums every time something doesn’t go their way. MVP shamelessly accuses those of us in harm’s way of ‘mischaracterizing’ their intent to blast methane through our communities as ‘premature’ when they just blew a pipe up during testing and obscured the facts surrounding the incident. This company’s conduct is revolting and all financiers and government officials who backed this project should be mortified. Let this disgraceful methane gas pipeline saga be a lasting lesson to MVP’s enablers to stop backing dangerous, climate-wrecking fossil fuel projects and start listening to fenceline communities.”

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