‘Victory for environmental justice’: Activists rejoice after $8bn Atlantic Coast Pipeline NIXED amid long-running legal battle – By Russia Today Staff (Russia Today) / July 6 2020
The two energy companies behind the controversial 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline slated to run from West Virginia to North Carolina, said they are scrapping the project after it was on hold for years due to legal challenges.
In a joint statement on Sunday, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy announced they are pulling the plug on the project, which was first announced in 2014 and has faced fierce opposition from landowners and environmental activists, who claimed that the 600-mile (970km) pipeline would cause irreparable damage to the land and wildlife.
The developers, who argued that the pipeline would be a better option for the environment, since it was set to replace coal-fired power plants with “environmentally superior, lower cost natural gas-fired generation,” have been embroiled in a long-running legal war with those who did not want to settle for second best.
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