Attorneys with the Charlottesville-based Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filed a new motion with federal regulators over Dominion’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). They say the pipeline’s new route would impact properties protected from development, but Dominion says it’s not that simple.
This is just the latest maneuvering in the ongoing battle over the ACP. Thursday, October 13, SELC showed NBC29 the areas in question from a thousand feet in the air.
“This area is all one landscape, so it comprises federal lands and important private conservation lands,” said Charmayne Staloff of SELC.
SELC filed a motion with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Thursday, requesting the commission deny Dominion’s new route for the ACP.
“Our position is that this pipeline isn’t necessary to meet demand, and so if it’s not necessary, why should landowners and natural resources suffer the adverse impacts for construction?” said Greg Buppert, SELC lawyer.
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