Thanks to a federal court opinion issued Thursday, tree-felling along the route of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline now will begin on more than a dozen properties in Virginia.
Following two days of arguments in the U.S. District Court’s Western District of Virginia Lynchburg court Monday and Tuesday, Judge Norman K. Moon issued an opinion Thursday allowing the 600-mile, interstate natural gas project “immediate access” to 16 properties in Buckingham, Bath, Augusta and Highland counties.
Property owners for the 16 properties were sued by ACP under the power of eminent domain because they had not signed easement agreements for permanent and temporary rights of way.
