Doug Jackson, 202.495.3045 or doug.jackson@sierraclub.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC (MVP) asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for two more years to complete their fracked gas pipeline. MVP is already severely behind schedule and over budget, and has racked up more than $2 million in fines in Virginia alone due to hundreds of alleged violations of commonsense environmental protections. There are also questions about whether MVP is accurately reporting how much of the project has been completed.
In response, Joan Walker, Senior Campaign Representative for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign, released the following statement:
“It defies belief that Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC continues to claim that the problems with their dirty, dangerous project were ‘unforeseen,’ and outside their control. Scientists, conservationists, and the people who live in the path of this fracked gas pipeline all warned them that it was unwise to build through pristine waterways and steep, rocky terrain. The issues that led Duke and Dominion Energy to cancel the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are the same ones MVP is facing, and soon the investors will want to quit throwing good money after bad.
“If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times; the smart thing to do would be to walk away from this risky and unnecessary project once and for all.”
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