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and the pipeline developer that Some brought photographs of prob- outlined review requirements for lems with pipeline installation — lack of recoating the pipeline and other supports for the pipeline in the trench, construction issues. [...] about how close the pipeline visible cracks in the ground The photos also show the progres- route was to homes, Deputy running where the trench was sion as the ground settled, cracks ap- Administrator Tristan Brown dug, and a pipeline marker peared and the marker tilted more and said, “Congress gives us no au- that was at a 90-degree angle is more over several months following thority to regulate. [...] urged TDEC to deny the permit because by the TVA, shut down during frigid officials from the Tennessee Depart- The pipeline would also threaten the company plans to use explosives weather from Winter Storm Elliot in ment of Environment and Conservation seven wetlands and cross streams more and the open-trench method to cross December 2022 — along with multiple ignored the significant impacts it wi. [...] 29 that it planned to reduce MVP At the end of 2023, Equitrans Mid- Southgate from 75 to 31 miles and cut stream, a company behind the Mountain down on the number of water crossings Valley Pipeline, announced a dramatic for the pipeline by removing North Caro- change in plans for its Southgate exten- lina’s Alamance County from the route, as sion that would reduce the length of the well as droppin. [...] Although the MVP Southgate exten- Kinsella noted that while Southgate On the shores of Hyco Lake, Duke tion groups including Appalachian Voic- would no longer cross the Haw River, the Energy wants to use the gas from MVP es, the publisher of this newspaper, filed sion is no longer crossing Alamance County, where the Haw River is located, Haw is connected to the Dan River, which Southgate and Willi.