Source: Dan Brouillette, FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER, 8/30/20


Recently, the N.C. Dept. of Environmental Quality (DEQ) blocked a water permit needed to advance an extension of the Mountain Valley pipeline. Weeks earlier, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project was scrapped in the context of an unfavorable regulatory and political environment for natural gas in Virginia. And who can forget the cancellation of the Access Northeast Pipeline in 2017, which led directly to the importation of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) to meet home heating needs in New England during a severe cold snap in 2018?  

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