| Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC, a joint venture of EQT Corp. and NextEra Energy, is proposing building a 42-inch diameter, 300-mile buried pipeline that would transport natural gas at high pressure from West Virginia to a delivery point in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
It is a $3.5 billion project.
Mountain Valley has followed up on their threat to take legal action against West Virginia landowners, many of them farmers, who have thus far refused to allow access to their properties for the proposed 42" pipeline construction.
Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC, (MVP) filed a petition in U.S. District Court in Beckley asking federal authorities to force three corporations and more than 100 other property owners residing in 10 West Virginia counties to permit the developer's agents to survey their land in order to to lay out a route for the 300-mile pipeline.
The suit filed against the 103 individuals and three corporations relies upon the doctrine of eminent domain â a power that is given to government and to private companies in certain, limited circumstances, to forcibly purchase private property for a project that serves the public good.
The suit names 103 people living in Braxton, Nicholas, Monongalia, Harrison, Lewis, Greenbrier, Monroe, Mercer, Summers and Webster counties as respondents.
Also on the list of respondents are the Lake Floyd Club, a golf and country club in Harrison County, with a principal corporate office in Bristol; Green Valley Coal Co., with a principal corporate office in Leivasy; and White Pine Inc., a real estate firm in Lewisburg.
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