Dominion Energy and Duke Energy have abandoned plans to complete construction of the estimated $8-billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline, ending a controversial seven-year quest to build the 600-mile natural gas pipeline between West Virginia and eastern North Carolina.
In a July 5 statement, the companies said that the project's economic viability was threatened by “ongoing delays and increasing cost uncertainty” resulting from an April 15 ruling by a federal judge in Montana preventing use of the U.S. Corps of Engineers' fast-tracked Nationwide Permit 12 process for constructing new oil and gas pipeline water crossings, which the agency suspended.