Supreme Court hears Atlantic Coast
Pipeline case, Roberts warns of
'impermeable barrier' along Appalachian
Trail
Fox News,
by
Danielle Wallace
Original Article
Posted By: JunkYardDog,
2/24/2020 4:07:01 PM
The Supreme Court began hearing arguments Monday on the case that will determine the fate of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline – a 600-mile natural gas project would begin in West Virginia and stretch through Virginia and North Carolina.
A December ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the U.S. Forest Service was not authorized to grant an $8 billion pipeline permit to Dominion Energy Inc., allowing for the natural gas project to cross the Appalachian Trail, West Virginia Public Radio reported.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 2/24/2020 4:18:00 PM (No. 328609)
Well I guess we'll just have to close all roads, highways, electric transmission lines, and railroads that cross the Appalachian Trail to make the black robes of the 4th Circuit happy. Next we'll have to prohibit aircraft from crossing it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
kdog 2/24/2020 4:25:39 PM (No. 328618)
The headline is misleading. The judge said deciding for the plaintiff's would create such a barrier, NOT that it currently is. FOX continues to go downhill.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Obviousity 2/24/2020 4:29:21 PM (No. 328624)
Danielle Wallace -- Nepotism?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
capecodfox 2/24/2020 4:29:47 PM (No. 328625)
Er, the last I checked, Virginia and North Carolina are not considered in the northeast. The AT is a national treasure, but I agree there must be a satisfactory unobtrusive way to get it done, as they say.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ming 2/24/2020 4:30:50 PM (No. 328628)
So how is the Dread Puppet Roberts going to screw the country over again? The article isn't clear.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 2/24/2020 4:32:08 PM (No. 328629)
Cross the trail? Put it under the trail, no one will ever see it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
John Gee 2/24/2020 4:43:51 PM (No. 328642)
People, just check out the Wiki on "Atlantic Coast pipeline."
This is just the tip of the iceberg. It appears the Left is making this particular pipe the new XL. They are using every lawfare trick in the books to kill it, and the trail think is just the one thats made it to the Supremes.
Oh, and yes, race is a big part, and yes, it is Native Indian tribes "impacted most," again.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
or gate 2/24/2020 4:53:20 PM (No. 328649)
Roberts can't be trusted to help anyone but his friends.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 2/24/2020 4:58:51 PM (No. 328654)
"Impermiable barrier?" Are they out of their minds. I am a backpacker and have hiked several portions of the Appalachian Trail, and this is just insanity.
Roberts is becoming very tiresome, such a traitor.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
swarfer 2/24/2020 5:07:03 PM (No. 328664)
READ CAREFULLY: Chief Justice John Roberts APPEARED TO BACK THE PERMIT in oral arguments in Washington Monday, claiming a ruling in favor of environmental groups would create an “impermeable barrier” along the 2,200-mile-long historic hiking route, Bloomberg reported."
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mushroom 2/24/2020 5:23:50 PM (No. 328671)
Get this, it crosses the trail *700ft* below it! But all this is distraction, the suit is concerning who gets the say, The Park Service or Congress. I'd say the Park Service because that is who has been tasked with managing the trail. The snowflakes say Congress because it won't get done.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Vuulfie2 2/24/2020 5:50:24 PM (No. 328685)
These "Environmentalists" are really getting tiresome. It will be 70 ft below ground and will only 0.1 mile long. That's roughly 550 ft.
You mean to tell me they can't abide 550 ft of trail to be disrupted while they dig the trench? It will be covered over and in 3 months you and all the critters will never know it was there.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 2/24/2020 6:09:16 PM (No. 328695)
Thank you, #10, sorry for not reading closely enough in the body of the article. I thought it had said that he was supporting the "impermeable barrier" lunacy.
Natural gas is the absolutely IDEAL way to heat private homes. The efficiency of delivery by pipeline is unmatched by any other fuel, and a relatively inexpensive furnace will deliver 97% of the heat contained in the fuel to the air inside your home. And the products of combustion are water and carbon dioxide, both totally harmless, regardless of the lies told.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 2/24/2020 6:17:40 PM (No. 328705)
Good luck getting the communists in charge of Virginia to pass anything that helps with distributing evil fossil fuels.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 2/24/2020 6:18:41 PM (No. 328707)
#12, it is not about protecting the trail. It is about stopping ALL use of petroleum based fuels, and essentially all progress. They want us totally controlled by a all=smothering central government, only getting around by bicycle, and unarmed so we can't complain effectively.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 2/24/2020 6:24:17 PM (No. 328708)
So if the Court rules in favor of the Enviromental Wackos, will they make them dig up the one that already cross the trail in Georgia?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 2/24/2020 8:56:57 PM (No. 328782)
shhhh #16
Please please don't give them ideas or ammunition or help or.......
They come up with enough on their own !!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Salt5792 2/24/2020 9:26:06 PM (No. 328796)
I've hiked 100-200 miles of the AT. If the pipeline crossed at right angles then it ought to be possible to make it very benign. Nature is precious but energy is important too.
4 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Mass Minority 2/24/2020 11:26:16 PM (No. 328847)
This is silly. Currently 4 lane highways cross the trail, as do 2 lane paved roads, ATV trails, Regular electric lines, high tension electric lines, 100 foot wide right of ways criss cross it everywhere. It is used as the access road to radio transmission towers.
In other words the impermeable wall is already more porous than the southern border.
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#4 VA and NC are south of the Mason Dixon line and definitely not in the NE.
We have a serious problem that is becoming evident with lack of Chinese goods. We are no longer self sufficient. We need to be able to survive any event in another part of the world. Any means for energy (and farming) needs to become important regardless of climate changers.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/25/2020 5:49:05 AM (No. 328940)
All oil, gasoline, kerosene, propane, electricity, jet fuel, etc. should be shut completely off from every single ecoterrorist. Let them live with what they preach.
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What drives electricity prices in the Northeast? AVAILABILITY (not price) of NatGas. Environmental groups like the Sierra Club work against your best interests-they care more for some smelt in a river than American citizens. Tree hugging commies, where does the power to charge your iPhone come from? Schmucks.