2. Not built Atlantic Connector

3. Dominion, Duke Energy, Piedmont Natural Gas and AGL Resources formed a joint venture to build and own the proposed 590 miles long Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Three compressor stations– one at the beginning of the pipeline in West Virginia, one in central Virginia (Buckingham County) and one near the Virginia-North Carolina state line. The capacity of the pipeline is projected to be 1.5 billion cubic feet/day. Cost is estimated at $4 to $5 billion.

4. NextEra US Gas Assets, LLC, completed a non binding open season for the Mountain Valley Pipeline project in July 2014. The 330-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline project would connect Marcellus natural gas supply to demand markets in the Southeast region of the United States and exports overseas. providing at least two billion cubic feet per day of firm transmission capacity. Delivery to Transco station 165 is expected to be in service by the fourth quarter of 2018. Project costs are $3 to $4 billion dollars.

5. In October, 2014, Williams announced its Appalachian Connector Pipeline Project, a 1-2 Bcf/d expansion of its Transco interstate pipeline to provide incremental firm capacity to markets in the Mid-Atlantic and southeastern United States by late 2018.

6. Columbia Pipeline Group is proposing to construct and operate two new compressor stations, approximately 26 miles of pipeline replacement and approximately 2.9 miles of new pipeline system in Virginia and West Virginia. The project increases pipeline capacity to 1.3 billion cubic feet per day and includes new pipeline interconnects

7.  Columbia Pipeline Group is proposing to construct and operate approximately 165 miles of various diameter pipeline, three new compressor stations, modifications to three existing compressor stations and one regulating station. The Mountaineer XPress project (MXP) would provide an additional 2.7 billion cubic feet per day capacity of firm transportation service from the Marcellus and Utica production areas.

8.  The proposed Leach XPress project involves construction of approximately 160 miles of natural gas pipeline and compression facilities in Ohio and West Virginia. The roughly $1.4 billion investment will enable transport of approximately 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas.

9. Several issues that deserve attention based on a preliminary review of the planned facilities and the environmental information provided by Dominion include:  land use impacts, including the exercise of eminent domain and future land use restrictions;  impacts on property values, tourism, and recreational resources;  safety issues, such as construction and operation of the planned facilities near existing residences, schools, businesses, and military training facilities, and in karst and steep slope terrain;  impacts on local emergency management systems;  impacts on forested areas and other vegetation;  impacts on surface water resources including springs, seeps, and wetlands;  impacts on groundwater resources and wells;  impacts on protected species and habitat;  impacts on cultural resources including battlefields, cemeteries, and historic properties; and  concerns regarding construction and operational noise, especially related to compressor stations.

12. Statute § 56-49.01 Right of entry by Natural Gas companies onto private property Any firm, corporation, company, or partnership, organized for the bona fide purpose of operating as a natural gas company as defined in 15 U.S.C. § 717a, as amended, may make such examinations, tests, hand auger borings, appraisals, and surveys for its proposed line or location of its works as are necessary (i) to satisfy any regulatory requirements and (ii) for the selection of the most advantageous location or route, the improvement or straightening of its line or works, changes of location or construction, or providing additional facilities, and for such purposes, by its duly authorized officers, agents, or employees, may enter upon any property without the written permission of its owner if (a) the natural gas company has requested the owner's permission to inspect the property as provided in subsection B, (b) the owner's written permission is not received prior to the date entry is proposed, and (c) the natural gas company has given the owner notice of intent to enter as provided in subsection C.

13. Anne Havemann, General Counsel, CCAN

14. Under the Natural Gas Act, pipeline developer must formally apply for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) Dominion submitted an application September 18, 2015 MVP submitted an application in October 2015

15. Review of certificate applications requires an environmental review under NEPA. FERC is the lead agency for coordinating NEPA compliance No statutory deadline, but process generally takes a year. The draft EIS is open to public comment and FERC will likely hold public hearings. Comment period is at least 45 days. After reviewing, incorporating comments, FERC publishes final EIS.

16.  The potential total GHG emissions associated with two proposed new pipelines would greatly increase emissions from this region for decades into the future. The total from the ACP pipeline is 40.7 MMT/yr which is comparable to the total contribution from the 177 GHG sources in Virginia of 49.4 MMT CO 2eq. The total from the MVP pipeline is 54.3 MMT which exceeds existing sources of GHG in Virginia. These are the low end estimates.

17. Pipeline leakage and upstream emissions contributes to GHG Methane, the primary ingredient in natural gas, has over 80 times the warming power of CO2 and is responsible for 25 percent of the warming we are feeling today. A recent report by the Rhodium Group found that current global methane losses from oil and gas would be equal to the seventh largest gas producing country and packing the short-term global warming punch equivalent to about 40 percent of total CO2 emissions from global coal combustion. From an economic standpoint, these emissions account for 3.5 Trillion cubic feet of lost natural gas, and $30 billon of lost revenue. Without action, these methane emissions will increase more than 20 percent by 2030.

18. Major shale plays are variable in well quality, with some plays being more productive on average than the rest. Law of Large Numbers. There are approximately 7,000 producing wells in the Marcellus, of which more than 6,000 have been completed since mid-2009, the play’s natural annual decline rate remains over 30 percent. Given that field declines are steep, requiring 25-50% of production to be replaced each year, the levels of drilling and Capital investment needed to maintain production will increase to maintain current levels of gas production.

21. 16,000 14,000 12,000 10,000 8,000 6,000 4,000 2,000 0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Gas -225 Natural gas production peaked in November 2015 In Marcellus from EIA data.

22. Demand for electricity has flat-lined in the U.S., and is now lower than it was at its peak in August of 2008. Dominion predicts annual growth for electricity generation of 1.8% over 5 year. The chart illustrates the trend:

26. A two pronged pushback A state wide movement tied to environmental concerns and regional landowners. The best-coordinated opposition to FERC's handling of gas projects is from activists calling on FERC to take an expanded look at environmental and climate implications in project reviews required by the National Environmental Policy Act. The Sierra Club is working in 9 counties in VA and 4 counties in WV with coalitions of groups opposing the pipelines. A two pronged pushback A state wide movement tied to environmental concerns and regional landowners. The best-coordinated opposition to FERC's handling of gas projects is from activists calling on FERC to take an expanded look at environmental and climate implications in project reviews required by the National Environmental Policy Act. The Sierra Club is working in 9 counties in VA and 4 counties in WV with coalitions of groups opposing the pipelines.

27.  Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Review all pipelines as a regional review instead of piecemeal. Used to establish need for all the pipelines. Senators Kaine/Warner, 3 Congressmen, 25 state legislators and 6 County Boards have sent letters to FERC requesting a PEIS.  Section 106 – Historic Resources National Historic Preservation Act review of existing historic structures in proximity to pipeline corridors. Many historic sites are not included in surveys. Active efforts to gain registration of sites by landowners.  Section 404 -Clean Water Act and Water Quality permitting Erosion control requirements and TMDL requirements for VA.  Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Review all pipelines as a regional review instead of piecemeal. Used to establish need for all the pipelines. Senators Kaine/Warner, 3 Congressmen, 25 state legislators and 6 County Boards have sent letters to FERC requesting a PEIS.  Section 106 – Historic Resources National Historic Preservation Act review of existing historic structures in proximity to pipeline corridors. Many historic sites are not included in surveys. Active efforts to gain registration of sites by landowners.  Section 404 -Clean Water Act and Water Quality permitting Erosion control requirements and TMDL requirements for VA.

28. Atlantic Coast Pipeline revised route alignment through the GW and Monongahela national forests. The new route avoids Cheat Mountain and Shenandoah Mountain because of certain species That inhabit those areas. The new route impacts 249 new landowners in Randolph and Pocahontas counties in West Virginia, and Highland, Bath and Augusta counties in Virginia. The alternative route will add 30 miles to the total length of the project.

29.  Appalachian Trail/Blue Ridge Parkway crossings authorizations Hands Across the AT event in April. Ten crossings of AT by several pipelines.  Lobbying legislators at Federal and State government. Pipelines Lobby Day held on January 19, 2016 at General Assembly. Two bills introduced: Repeal survey statute and close erosion control regulation loophole.

30.  In 2014, Dominion gave $1.4 million in campaign donations to candidates of both parties and PACs in the state. This was more money than either the Republican or Democratic parties gave to their candidates and office holders. Remember, 2014 was not an election year for State offices. One politician, Delegate Terry Kilgore, was given $37,000 that year. Kilgore is Chairman for the House Commerce and Labor Committee, which is a powerful committee that controls legislation concerning energy regulation.

31.  Dominion is the Third Political party in the State.. It’s called The Old Dominion Party!! And they are winning the battle in our legislature.  Dominion wants a rate of return of 14% on their investment for the Atlantic Coast pipeline. This is Outrageous!!

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