K, Last week, Wild Virginia and seven partner organizations filed a petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. This petition challenges a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) decision to extend the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) Southgate Project. Southgate's altered plans are still not fully disclosed, providing a strong reason to reject this FERC approval. In any case though, the project unquestionably threatens the environment and people along its likely path. And this is all in support of an attempt to prop up their dirty, wasteful business model, which ties us to more decades of delay in making the necessary transition to clean energy. “Approving the Southgate project is irresponsible,” said David Sligh, Wild Virginia’s Conservation Director. “This project will pose the same kinds of threats of damage to the environment and the people along its path as we have seen caused by the Mountain Valley Pipeline during the last six years. FERC has again failed to protect the public interest, instead
favoring a profit-making corporation.” Wild Virginia will continue to oppose this destructive proposal with the same commitment we have shown on MVP. The strong coalition of organizations and individuals that battled so successfully in stalling the MVP, until Congress disgracefully gave the corporations a free pass to ignore important environmental laws, is not going away or slowing down. We'll keep giving you updates on the project and the work we are doing. Thank you for staying with us. You can read the full press release here and the petition that was filed here. |
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