Opposition to pipeline organizes in Craig County

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Opposition to pipeline organizes in Craig County

A group has organized rapidly to fight proposed routes that would pass through Craig County.
Posted: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 4:00 pm
By Duncan Adams | [e-mail] | 981-3324

For Bill Wolf, co-chairman of Preserve Craig County, the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline threatens everyone in Craig County — not just property owners who might be directly impacted by the pipeline’s route. ... On Feb. 18, Mountain Valley described several new alternative routes for the 42-inch-diameter, buried natural gas transmission pipeline. Three would take the project through Craig County instead of neighboring Giles County.
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As proposed, the 300-mile pipeline would transport natural gas at high pressure from Wetzel County, West Virginia, to a pipeline in Pittsylvania County. The source of the gas would be hydraulic fracturing extraction, or fracking, in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The routes currently proposed by Mountain Valley could potentially traverse the Virginia counties of Giles, Craig, Montgomery, Roanoke and Franklin en route to the pipeline near Chatham.

Mountain Valley recently initiated contact with property owners in Craig County, along with a new set of landowners in Roanoke County, seeking permission to survey their property for a possible pipeline route.