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Manchin got Democratic support for permitting changes that will “require the relevant agencies to take all necessary actions to permit the construction and operation of the Mountain Valley Pipeline” across West Virginia.

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To accommodate the West Virginia senator, Democratic leadership agreed to legislation streamlining permits for the often-stalled Mountain Valley Pipeline and removing jurisdiction from a court that keeps ruling against the project.

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Lynda Majors and Mark Jarrell Eminent domain under the Natural Gas Act is now responsible for a massive transfer of private rural land to corporations with the backing of government force — all on behalf of fracked gas as a global “commodity” with a 16% return to investors. Public servants in all sectors must wake up and reckon with the ills and injustices of Mountain Valley Pipeline. In the path of MVP through Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, law abiding, ...

A jury on Friday ordered Mountain Valley to pay the Chandlers $430,000. After hearing four days of testimony, the jury settled on the figure as “just compensation” for an 8.6-acre easement the company took in 2018, using its power of eminent domain to force a sale when the owners resisted. Currently under construction, the 42-inch diameter natural gas pipeline bisects the Chandlers’ 111-acre property, passing about 500 feet from their custom-built home. “There’s a huge ...