Area watershed official tells crowd pipeline not a done deal
“About 200 people had gathered in the Lindside Methodist Church Tuesday evening. Of those 200, only one man openly said he would support the cause.
What cause is so unpopular in Monroe County?
It’s the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
The pipeline is a proposed 220-mile-long, 42-inch pipe that would carry 2 billion cubic feet of natural gas from Wetzel County to Virginia.
“We’re early into the process,” Greenbrier River Watershed Association Education Coordinator Elise Keaton said Tuesday night. “People have been saying this is a done deal and there’s nothing that can be done. They’re wrong.
“They’ve been contacting landowners and getting in touch with government agencies who have an interest in what they’re doing. They have not submitted a formal application yet. The soonest they will submit their application to FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) would be late 2015. The company building the pipeline, EQT, expects to be in service by 2018.”
Keaton said the reason people are so opposed to the pipeline are obvious.”
Neff, Cody. Register Herald 20 November 2014.