Trump appointees approve two major pipelines to transport fracked gas
Source: Think Progress
Federal regulators approved two major natural gas pipelines that would transport fracked gas through Virginia, although one of the agency’s commissioners issued a surprise vote against construction of both pipelines.
President Donald Trump’s two appointees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) voted late Friday to approve both the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The lone Democrat on the commission, Cheryl LaFleur, issued a written dissent, saying she could not support the projects “given the environmental impacts and possible superior alternatives.”
The federal agency’s approval of the pipeline projects was expected all along the review process. FERC has rejected only a tiny number of natural gas infrastructure applications over the past few decades.
Earlier this year, FERC issued favorable environmental reviews for both pipelines. Commission Chairman Neil Chatterjee and Commissioner Robert Powelson — Republican nominees confirmed to FERC this past summer — agreed with those reviews in voting to approve the two pipeline projects.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/ferc-commissioner-dissents-33ed185fed9d/
I just wonder what Mitch and his fascists "boys" would do if someone decided to put a pipe in there yard, that could kill them
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