Three Virginia counties in the path of the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline have asked the federal commission reviewing the project to delay issuing a related draft environmental impact statement that’s currently set for release in September.
Roanoke, Giles and Craig counties contend that too many questions raised by the staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission itself, by cooperating federal agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service, by pipeline opponents and others remain unanswered or unresolved about the proposed natural gas transmission pipeline.
In addition, the counties implore FERC to require Mountain Valley to provide an indexed, up-to-date, comprehensive report of its responses to numerous FERC inquiries since the pipeline company filed its initial application in October.
