Source: John Downey, CHARLOTTE BUSINESS JOURNAL, 10/16/17


The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the $5 billion 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline, designed to transport gas from shale fields in Pennsylvania to Southern Virginia and eastern North Carolina, with one of the three commissioners dissenting. In the order, the divided commission finds that the controversial project’s benefits “outweigh any adverse effects on existing shippers, other pipelines and their captive customers, and on landowners and surrounding communities.”

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