NO MVP SOUTHGATE EXTENSION
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What is the MVP Southgate Extension?
In late 2023, Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate Extension developers announced changes to their embattled methane gas pipeline proposal, that include cutting the total length in half, and removing Alamance County from the route. In 2024, Transco proposed an additional high pressure methane gas pipeline (Southeast Supply Enhancement Project/SSEP) to run directly alongside Southgate.
The new Southgate route would extend 31 miles from the terminus of the MVP mainline in Chatham, VA into Rockingham County, NC. According to developers, the revised plan would also mean fewer water crossings, and no additional compressor station, the permit for which MVP Southgate was denied on environmental justice grounds in 2021.
The plans are not yet finalized, and the community-driven fight against the unnecessary and dangerous project continues, until MVP Southgate is cancelled for good.
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Latest Updates
Mountain Valley Pipeline has submitted a request to federal regulators asking permission to change the route, size and carrying capacity of its Southgate pipeline extension from Pittsylvania County, Virginia, into North Carolina. The public had until March 11 to submit comments to the FERC docket, as well as to file a Motion to Intervene.
After years of inspiring community resistance halted the project, MVP has resurrected Southgate with an “amendment” request to FERC, asking for a new route and increased pipe diameter that would crank up how much gas it could carry. With so many changes to its original plan, MVP Southgate should have to go through a new certification process with FERC, not just changes to its years-old certificate!
