Dominion Energy and Duke Energy will not be moving forward with a 600-mile natural gas pipeline project due to ongoing delays and increasing cost uncertainty, which threaten the economic viability of the project.
The $7.5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project, which was to be jointly developed by Duke Energy and Dominion Energy, would have run underground from West Virginia to North Carolina, crossing beneath the Appalachian Trail and the George Washington National Forest.
In June, the project was given the green light to proceed by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 7–2 ruling. On July 5, however, the development companies announced that recent developments have created an unacceptable layer of uncertainty and anticipated delays for ACP.
Specifically, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana was said to have overturned long-standing
