A Nelson County judge overruled a motion Tuesday from 35 Nelson County landowners seeking to dismiss a surveying lawsuit from Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC.
The landowners’ motion was on the grounds an amended notice of intent to enter property to survey for the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline was legally insufficient. At a hearing Tuesday, Judge Michael Garrett disagreed. In his ruling, Garrett said the notices now are legally sufficient, and the revised notices issued to landowners now comply with a Virginia state statute outlining the requirements for a natural gas company to enter properties for surveying.
The case will move on as previously scheduled. An evidentiary hearing in the surveying case is set for Feb. 6 in Nelson County Circuit Court.
