Federal Regulators Approve $7.9 Billion West Virginia Pipeline

After years of delay, Mountain View Pipeline set to funnel natural gas into Virginia, boosting energy security, stabalizing costs for mid-Atlantic utilities.

Pipes awaiting use in forming a pipeline. Jim Mone/AP Photo/File

The 303-mile, $7.85 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline has received final federal approval and is set to begin piping 2 billion cubic feet of fracked shale natural gas a day from West Virginia into Virginia this summer.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Energy Projects Director Terry Turpin officially ended a decade of regulatory and legal contention over the project in a June 11 letter that informed Equitrans Midstream Corp. it could turn on the pipeline’s spigots.