The Division of Water Resources has again denied a water-quality permit to the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate that would carry natural gas from Virginia to Graham after an appeals court ordered more consideration.
“In the absence of the MVP Mainline pipeline’s completion in Virginia, the MVP Southgate project has no independent utility,” according to a recent letter from The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Division of Water Resources. “In essence, it would be a pipeline from nowhere to nowhere incapable of carrying any natural gas, and certainly not able to fulfill its basic project purpose, while having no practical alternative.”
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 23rd indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 15 billion cubic feet to 1,898 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 302 billion cubic feet, or 13.7% below the 2,200 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 23rd of last year, and 40 billion cubic feet, or 2.1% below the five-year average of 1,938 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 23rd of April in recent years..the 15 billion cubic feet that were added to US natural gas storage this week was more than the average forecast of a 9 billion cubic foot addition from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, but measured well below the average addition of 67 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have typically been injected into natural gas storage during the same week over the past 5 years, as well as well below the 66 billion cubic feet added to natur
The proposed route of the MVP Southgate project. DEQ denied a water quality permit for the project for the second time.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has again denied a key water quality permit for the proposed MVP Southgate natural gas pipeline, dealing another setback to the controversial project that would run through Rockingham and Alamance counties.
DEQ originally denied the water quality permit application last August. At the time Division of Water Resources Director Danny Smith wrote that because of “uncertainty surrounding the completion of the MVP Mainline project … work on the Southgate extension could lead to unnecessary water quality impacts and disturbance of the environment in North Carolina.”
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North Carolina Regulators Fail to Adequately Explain MVP Southgate Denial, Court Rules
North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) did not adequately explain its decision to deny a water quality certificate for Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC’s (MVP) Southgate expansion project, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in a ruling handed down late last week granted a petition filed by MVP seeking to vacate the DEQ’s decision last August to deny state certification for the project.
MVP’s Southgate project would consist of 75 miles of 16-inch and 24-inch diameter line to extend the original 303-mile, 2 million Dth/d mainline project’s reach into North Carolina. At the time, the DEQ predicated its decision to deny the certification, required under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, on uncertainty surrounding the mainline project’s completion given multiple legal and regulatory setbacks.