On October 19, 2018, the Pittsburgh District of the Army Corps of Engineers suspended a third permit that the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) must have to build through waterways in Wetzel and Harrison Counties in West Virginia.

This is the third invalidation or suspension of MVP’s water crossing permits. On October 2, a federal appeals court vacated a similar permit for the rest of the West Virginia route, and the approval covering the more than 500 crossings on the Virginia portion of the route has also been suspended. Although MVP now has no authority to build through any waterbodies, streams, or wetlands on its entire 303 mile route, intensive construction continues in places between streams.

Opponents are calling on FERC to issue a stop work order, since FERC’s order approving the project requires that all permits be in place for construction to take place anywhere along its 303-mile route, and the necessary permits are clearly no longer in place.

Read the Roanoke Times report here.

Read the Appalachian Mountain Advocates release here.