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$5B natural gas pipeline may run through Virginia
http://hamptonroads.com/2014/09/5b-natural-gas-pipeline-may-run-through-virginia$5B natural gas pipeline may run through Virginia
By Aaron Applegate
Carolyn Shapiro
The Virginian-Pilot
© September 3, 2014
Dominion Resources and other partners are proposing a $5 billion natural gas pipeline to connect the Southeast with the rapidly growing supply of natural gas being produced in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
The 550-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would include a 70-mile spur into Hampton Roads through Suffolk and Chesapeake, would begin in West Virginia and stretch through Virginia and North Carolina, ending near the South Carolina border.
It's designed to tap gas from two geological formations, the Marcellus and Utica shale, that account for more than a quarter of the nation's natural gas.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe touted the pipeline, which could be operating by 2018, as a "game-changer for Virginia" at a news conference Tuesday.