STEVE SZKOTAK
Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A proposed $5 billion pipeline that would deliver natural gas to the Southeast is finding pockets of opposition along its planned path in West Virginia and Virginia.
The opposition primarily concerns the pipeline carving through national forests in both states.
The 550-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline is also seeing resistance in remote high-elevation sections of Virginia amid concerns it would traverse an environmentally sensitive landscape. Some landowners also object to plans for the pipeline to dissect their property.
The pipeline has plenty of supporters, for sure, including the governors of Virginia and West Virginia. They both embrace the jobs and the expected economic benefits of cheap natural gas.
Officials in a number of localities also have endorsed the project.
The pipeline would deliver gas to Virginia and North Carolina.
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Online:
Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance: http://www.abralliance.org/
Atlantic Coast Pipeline project: https://www.dom.com/business/gas-transmission/atlantic-coast-pipeline/index.jsp
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