The US Army Corp of Engineers has awarded a Nationwide Permit 12, which allows the crossing of waterbodies, to Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), which is building a 1.9 bcf/d (20 bcm/year) gas pipeline from Wetzel County (West Virginia) to Pittsylvania County (Virginia) (United States). In addition, the US$5.4bn gas pipeline project has received a draft supplemental environmental impact from the US Forest Service Bureau of Land Management. Consequently, MVP has asked to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for permission to resume construction.
Mountain Valley Pipeline is a joint venture (JV) made of five companies, namely MVP Holdco (EQT Corporation), US Marcellus Gas Infrastructure (NextEra Energy Capital Holdings), Con Edison Gas Midstream, WGL Midstream and RGC Midstream. MVP plans to commission its long-delayed gas pipeline project in early 2021 and to build an extension of the gas pipeline to the Rockingham and Alamance Counties in North Carolina by the end of 2021. In June 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed a lower court decision regarding the U.S. Forest Service's authority to grant a right-of-way to cross the Appalachian Trail. The positive ruling clears the path for MVP's Appalachian Trail crossing. The project is 92% complete, 256 miles (412 km) of pipeline placed into the ground and 155 miles (249 km) of the route already restored.