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Mountain Valley Seeks U.S. Approval to Resume Pipeline Construction

9/23/2020

(Reuters) - Mountain Valley Pipeline asked federal regulators for permission to resume construction on the $5.4-$5.7 billion pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia by Sept. 25. (photo: Mountain Valley Pipeline) Mountain Valley said that would allow it to complete as many activities as possible before winter, according to a filing with the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) late on Tuesday. FERC suspended work on Mountain Valley in October 2019 due to litigation over the project's Biological Opinion from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which allows the project to work in areas inhabited by endangered and threatened species. The FWS issued a new Biological Opinion in

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