Despite adversaries’ strong opposition to a proposed 600-mile mid-Atlantic natural-gas pipeline on environmental, eminent domain and conflict-of-interest grounds, project developers late last month hired a four-firm team to build the estimated $5-billion project.
Price Gregory International, U.S. Pipeline, SMPC and Rockford Corp., operating as Spring Ridge Contractors, were picked as the Atlantic Coast Pipeline contractor. The line, from West Virginia through Virginia and North Carolina, would transport fracked gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale regions by 2019.