Virginia regulators have put the brakes on efforts by Mountain Valley Pipeline to build a natural gas compressor station in Montgomery County. The MVP Boost project has been paused, but the company says they hope it can be resurrected.
Currently, the federal government is reviewing MVP’s application to move more gas through its pipeline in West Virginia and Virginia and build a new compressor station in Elliston.
Last December, the Montgomery County board of supervisors sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, citing concerns with MVP Boost. County administrator Angie Hill said they believe there may be a safety issue, because the only evacuation route from the site is sometimes blocked by train traffic.
“And another concern that they wanted FERC to evaluate was the natural, physical and human environments that might be caused by adverse air emissions,” Hill said…