Legal Opinion
Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC v. 6.56 Acres of Land
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided February 5, 2019No. 18-1159; No. 18-1165; No. 18-1175; No. 18-1181; No. 18-1187; No. 18-1242; No. 18-1300PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAMELA HARRIS, Circuit Judge:
In October 2017, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the application of Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC, to construct a natural gas pipeline through West Virginia and Virginia. Building and maintaining that pipeline would require access to thousands of private properties, under which the pipeline would be buried. Accordingly, the Commission's approval permits Mountain Valley to obtain *209easements along the pipeline route through eminent domain where it cannot do so through private agreements.
Mountain Valley successfully negotiated easements allowing…
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