Atlantic Coast Pipeline Environmental Statement: Most Impacts Will Be 'Reduced To Less-Than-Significant Levels'

7/24/17

By Robert Zullo, Richmond Times-Dispatch

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission says that the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline spearheaded by Dominion Energy, which will transport natural gas from West Virginia through rural central Virginia into North Carolina, would result in “some adverse effects” on steep slopes, water bodies, vegetation and habitat for endangered bats, mussels, fish and other species along the route.

However, in the final Environmental Impact Statement released Friday , which spans nearly 900 pages, the commission’s staff says that “most, but not all of these impacts, would be reduced to less-than-significant levels” as a result of the developers’ proposed mitigation measures to minimize the effects of construction and Dominion’s “steep-slope management program and slip avoidance, identification, prevention and remediation plan to minimize erosion and landslide potential in steep slope areas.”

That finding did not surprise either environmental opponents of the massive, $5.5 billion project or its developers.

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