Manchin Bests Biden, Gets 300-Mile Pipeline Fast-Tracked in Debt Ceiling Deal


By Tom Gantert (The Heart Sq.)

A 303-mile lengthy pure gasoline pipeline system was tacked on to the debt ceiling deal that was brokered Sunday night time by U.S. Home Republicans and President Joe Biden.

The Mountain Valley Pipeline will price $6.2 billion and run from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia. The deal would elevate the federal authorities’s debt ceiling and quick observe the pipeline challenge by means of the federal approval course of.

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U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (R-West Virginia) tweeted affirmation of the deal.

“I’m proud to have fought for this vital challenge and to have secured the bipartisan assist essential to get it throughout the end line,” Manchin mentioned on Twitter. “Final summer season, I launched laws to finish the Mountain Valley Pipeline. I’m happy Speaker McCarthy and his management group see the super worth in finishing the MVP to extend home power manufacturing and drive down prices throughout America and particularly in WV.”

The pipeline has confronted delays. The Mountain Valley Pipeline’s web site said the challenge group had focused the summer season of 2022 when the system could be in-service.

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