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TexasTowelie

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Mon Aug 16, 2021, 02:21 AM Aug 2021

Judge says she can't halt Virginia mountain pipeline blasts

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — A federal judge declined to block the blasting of bedrock on a Virginia mountain where a natural gas pipeline is supposed to be laid, saying she lacks authority to do so.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Dillon comes after the property owner on Bent Mountain in Roanoke County sought an injunction to halt the work involving the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

Dillon said Friday her court was not the proper jurisdiction to resolve the dispute, noting that landowner John Coles Terry III had already sought action from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, The Roanoke Times reported.

An attorney for Terry’s family asked last week for a temporary injunction on the drilling and blasting. Construction crews had started boring holes to prepare for explosives that would clear a trench for the buried 42-inch (107-centimeter) diameter pipe.

Read more: https://www.register-herald.com/region/judge-says-she-cant-halt-virginia-mountain-pipeline-blasts/article_b631b8fe-a719-538e-a030-0c8d4ab9c5f4.html
(Beckley Register-Herald)

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