WASHINGTON (WV News) — U.S. Rep. Carol Miller has presented the latest effort from West Virginia's Congressional delegation to see the Mountain Valley Pipeline project completed.
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Miller, a Republican, was joined by fellow Republican Reps. John Joyce and Guy Reschenthaler, both of Pennsylvania, to introduce the Mountain Valley Pipeline Completion Act.
"What’s one thing Presidents (Barack) Obama, (Donald) Trump, and (Joe) Biden agree on? They all wanted the Mountain Valley Pipeline completed," Miller said. "The Mountain Valley Pipeline Completion Act will finish this necessary project that has been held up by the radical, left-wing courts and will implement a needed check on our judicial system.
"The American people are depending on domestic energy production so energy prices will finally go down. I look forward to the Mountain Valley Pipeline Completion Act passing into law shortly to unleash American energy."
Unlike recent bills pushed by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Miller's bill does not involve any wider permitting reform efforts, instead focusing solely on the MVP.
Manchin recently introduced the Building American Energy Security Act of 2023, while Capito has introduced Revitalizing the Economy by Simplifying Timelines and Assuring Regulatory Transparency (RESTART) Act.
“We’re committed, and the MVP is going to be built,” Manchin said during a recent press conference. “It must be for the security of our nation.”
“Sen. Capito continues to push for and welcomes advancements of the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s completion,” said Peter Hoffman, communications director for Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Republicans — of which Capito is a member.
At the end of April, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission all but urging the body to aid the completion of the pipeline.
“While the Department takes no position regarding the outstanding agency actions required under federal or state law related to the construction of the MVP project, nor on any pending litigation, we submit the view that the MVP project will enhance the Nation’s critical infrastructure for energy and national security,” Granholm wrote.
The MVP project is planned to span approximately 303 miles from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia, transporting natural gas from the Mountain State to markets in the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic regions.
The pipeline has faced repeated delays, setbacks and halts due to regulatory challenges brought by environmental activists and other stakeholders opposed to the pipeline. MVP officials have said the project is roughly 94% completed.
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The MVP is NOT 94% complete and the so-called regulatory delays are the direct result of over 400 violations by the companies and sub-contractors along the pipeline route - the fact that the terrain for a 42" high pressure natural gas pipeline is incompatible and that mountainsides on that route are susceptible to landslides and the construction to date has robbed property owners of precious spring water reserves. The propaganda by every one of WV's politicians is shameful because they aren't the ones who will suffer the destruction, land grabs, noise, pollution, toxic air and water from increased fracking to supply this unnecessary pipeline with natural gas that will not serve us but will enrich everyone who pushing this project forward regardless of the cost to our health and future well - being. Shame on everyone who's lying to get what their corporate owners have ordered them to do.
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The MVP is NOT 94% complete and the so-called regulatory delays are the direct result of over 400 violations by the companies and sub-contractors along the pipeline route - the fact that the terrain for a 42" high pressure natural gas pipeline is incompatible and that mountainsides on that route are susceptible to landslides and the construction to date has robbed property owners of precious spring water reserves. The propaganda by every one of WV's politicians is shameful because they aren't the ones who will suffer the destruction, land grabs, noise, pollution, toxic air and water from increased fracking to supply this unnecessary pipeline with natural gas that will not serve us but will enrich everyone who pushing this project forward regardless of the cost to our health and future well - being. Shame on everyone who's lying to get what their corporate owners have ordered them to do.
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