Posted on 04/03/2022 11:54:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has refused to revisit a ruling that struck down a key permit for a proposed natural gas pipeline running through Virginia and West Virginia.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Friday that it would not revisit a February ruling by a three-judge panel that invalidated the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s opinion that the Mountain Valley Pipeline would not jeopardize two endangered fish species.
The panel found “serious errors” with the agency’s conclusion that construction of the pipeline wouldn’t pose a threat to the Roanoke logperch or the candy darter.
The February ruling came one week after the same three-judge panel rejected a permit that would have allowed the pipeline to pass through a 3.5 mile (5.6 kilometer) section of the Jefferson National Forest. In both cases, the judges faulted the U.S. Forest Service and the wildlife agency for failing to adequately assess the pipeline’s environmental impact.
The Roanoke Times reports that Mountain Valley now has little hope of obtaining the required approvals without going through a renewed permitting process. The $6.2 billion infrastructure project has been targeted by about a dozen environmental groups and is already more than three years behind schedule.
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What can be done when judges with lifetime appointments go woke or insane?
Nice to know these two fish will be okay even though there will be people, especially those on fixed incomes, who might freeze to death.
The US is a country that slits its own throat.
I wonder if the governor of Virginia and the governor of West Virginia could get together, make an agreement, and just start building?
Force the feds to come and take their pipeline.
Go full Obama. Do it anyway.
All for the greater good sir, all for the greater good.Build Back Better!
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Our ruling communist masters are still on a roll...
January 2022: "Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, and WYNN and THACKER, Circuit Judges. Petitions granted in part and denied in part, vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge Thacker wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge Gregory and Judge Wynn joined"
Roger Gregory, Rapin Bill Clinton judge and James A. Wynn Jr., Obama judge.
This thing never had a chance in January.
Republican senators vote to confirm these POS's like it some kind of game and they worry they might seem partisan if they don't. Just look at the current SCOTUS nominee - a pedophile, child abusing enabler. And will vote to confirm her. RINOs are just as much the enemy as Democrats.
Democrats are evil scum.
Isn’t it great to know that three judges sitting on a panel know more about fish than the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service????
This is the only way judicial tyranny will be overcome. JUST DO IT.
Who do they think they are, Biologists or something?
Yet another STRONG MESSAGE from the West to Putin showing him that we’ll now be taking care of our fuel needs!
“What can be done when judges with lifetime appointments go woke or insane?”
The judges should be made to heat their homes only with wood and put a 400 foot tall windmill in their back yard.
“What can be done when judges with lifetime appointments go woke or insane?”
Many here respond by blaming Putin.
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