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Thursday, June 13, 2024

MVP: A Monument to Tenacity and Domestic Energy

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Mountain Valley Pipeline
MVP Emerging Like ‘The Sphinx’ from the Appalachian Mountains.
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What If we could bring West Virginia natural gas energy to the NY Metropolitan area to help supply reliable and inexpensive energy to the residents and businesses and governments of the north-east?
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How to do that when Democrat leaders, including Cuomo in Albany, would not let gas pipelines be built in the western corridor along the Pennsylvania border and Route-17; a shorter route and reasonably friendly to traverse compared to a south-eastern route across the Appalachian Mountains and the Blue Ridge and then North.
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MVP set out to build the pipeline in an environment of hostility not seen in that area since the Civil War. Unfortunately, the subsequent man-made delays and cost overruns have made the project less financially helpful to the customers than the original plan.
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Of all the obstacles deployed by distractors, it’s not clear that any of them resulted in a better or safer pipeline; in fact, doubling the width of the clear-cut would have made the forest-fire-break more effective and accessible going forward.
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The MVP should be renamed to the 'Sen. Manchin Pipe Line' to recognize his major successful efforts getting the final approvals in place.
Manchin Statement on Mountain Valley Pipeline Resuming Construction | U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia (senate.gov)
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There are still considerable start-up and operational functions to perform; let’s hope that things go safely and smoothly.
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