{"id":706,"date":"2017-10-16T14:18:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T14:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/2017\/10\/16\/waterkeepers-reject-ferc-approval-acp-mvp\/"},"modified":"2021-06-03T11:35:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:35:53","slug":"waterkeepers-reject-ferc-approval-acp-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/waterkeepers-reject-ferc-approval-acp-mvp\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Waterkeeper rechazan la aprobaci\u00f3n federal de los oleoductos de la Costa Atl\u00e1ntica y Mountain Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Rubberstamps Pipelines, Ignoring Strong Evidence of Significant Harm & Lack of Need<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Waterkeepers Chesapeake, a coalition of nineteen independent Waterkeeper and Riverkeeper programs, condemns the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission\u2019s decision to approve the Atlantic Coast (ACP) and Mountain Valley Pipelines (MVP), despite strong evidence of significant harm.\u00a0The potential water quality impacts from these natural gas pipelines in the Chesapeake Bay watershed is alarming, specifically for the headwaters of the Shenandoah and James rivers. Waterkeepers Chesapeake applauds Commissioner LaFleur dissenting view that questions the need for the ACP and MVP, and recognizes the dire environmental, ecological, and public health impacts that will result from these needless projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Commission\u2019s approval seriously undermines FERC\u2019s credibility as a supposedly objective permitting agency, given the fact that its decision was made in advance of necessary and required decisions\u00a0by the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and the state environmental authorities in the affected states of Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina on critical environmental issues.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the coming weeks and months, Waterkeepers Chesapeake will join the Shenandoah Riverkeeper, Upper James Riverkeeper, hundreds of landowners, scientists, faith leaders, businesses, public health organizations, non-profits, and other community organizations and thousands of Virginians to stop these pipelines at the federal, state, and local levels.<\/span><\/p>\n

[The Virginia State Water Control Board will hold town meetings in December to consider the application for water quality certification for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The consideration is part of the process required under Section 401 of the federal Clean Water Act. The meetings are\u00a0scheduled for: 9:30 a.m., Monday, Dec.\u00a011, 2017, and Tuesday, Dec.\u00a012, 2017. Location: Trinity Family Life Center, 3601 Dill Road, Richmond, VA. More info here.<\/strong>]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La Comisi\u00f3n Federal Reguladora de Energ\u00eda (FRE) aprueba los oleoductos, ignorando la contundente evidencia de da\u00f1os significativos y la falta de necesidad. Waterkeepers Chesapeake, una coalici\u00f3n de diecinueve programas independientes Waterkeeper y Riverkeeper, condena la decisi\u00f3n de la FRE de aprobar los oleoductos de la Costa Atl\u00e1ntica (ACP) y del Valle de la Monta\u00f1a (MVP), a pesar de la contundente evidencia de da\u00f1os significativos. La posible calidad del agua\u2026 Lee mas<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,580,27],"tags":[116,265,67,49,113,521,118,72,418,416,112],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pipelines-compressor-stations","category-atlantic-coast-pipeline","category-press-statements","tag-atlantic-coast-pipeline","tag-federal-energy-regulatory-commission","tag-ferc","tag-fracking","tag-james-river","tag-mountain-valley-pipeline","tag-natural-gas-pipeline","tag-potomac-river","tag-shenandoah-river","tag-shenandoah-riverkeeper","tag-upper-james-riverkeeper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}