Group protests expanding pipeline into NC. Critics say it will dig up burial grounds
The project would allow for more natural gas transportation for energy companies, but Cavalier-Keck said it would dig up sacred burial grounds. Author: Lana Harris Updated: 6:49 PM EDT April 29, 2021
CHARLOTTE, N.C. A group of activists in Charlotte gathered in Marshall Park on Thursday in protest of extending the Mountain Valley Pipeline from Virginia into North Carolina. We’re just kind of tired of being pushed aside,” said Crystal Cavalier-Keck, founder of the indigenous advocacy organization 7 Directions of Service.
The proposed extension of the Mountain Valley Pipeline would run 40 miles into North Carolina from Virginia.
Four months later, odor issues still plaguing neighborhoods, little answers on solutions
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YORK COUNTY, S.C. (WBTV) -An anniversary no one is wanting to celebrate.
It has been four months since South Carolinaâs Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) got the first few reports of the rotten egg smell in Lancaster and York counties. WBTV was the first to start investigating this story and since then there have been a lot of new developments. That includes South Carolinaâs governor getting involved with the smell.
North Carolina again denies permit for Mountain Valley gas pipe extension By Syndicated Content
Apr 30, 2021 | 12:05 PM
(Reuters) â The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) again denied Mountain Valley Pipelineâs (MVP) request for a water permit for its proposed Southgate natural gas pipeline project from Virginia to North Carolina.
The DEQ first denied MVPâs request in August 2020. MVP appealed that decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which remanded the case back to the DEQ to âexplain why the Department chose denial over conditional certification.â
The DEQ said in its second denial on Thursday that conditional approval âdoes not provide the reasonable assurance of compliance with water quality requirements.â
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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.”