Posted on 09/21/2015 8:02:31 AM PDT by thackney
Four energy partners formally asked the federal government on Friday for permission to build a 564-mile natural gas pipeline in West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina.
The 348-page application was submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The $5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline is intended to deliver cleaner burning natural gas to the Southeast as utilities move away from coal-burning power plants amid tighter federal rules on pollution that contributes to climate change.
Richmond, Virginia-based Dominion Resources Inc. and Charlotte, North Carolina-based Duke Energy would have 45 percent and 40 percent ownership stakes in the pipeline, respectively. Charlotte-based Piedmont Natural Gas would have a 10 percent ownership and Atlanta-based AGL Resources, 5 percent.
The pipeline would carry natural gas from Marcellus shale drilling in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia to the Southeast. It would run from Harrison County, West Virginia, southeast to Greensville County, Virginia, and into North Carolina.
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The enviro-nuts will ensure that the first energy generated from this pipeline will occur sometime between 10 years from now and the 12th of Never.
The irony is I am on propane and can not get natural gas to the house.
Not to mention the non wacko NIMBYs (Not in My Back Yard) in every community along the proposed route.
Like I said earlier, my only concern is the temporary increase in traffic, and noise while they are building this section.
There is quite a bit of pipeline activity here in WV, fracing is on the decline.
Obama will say: DENIED, along with every other energy project involving so-called “fossil fuels”.
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