Multi-Billion Dollar Pipeline in the Works

Four energy partners have formally asked the federal government for permission to build a 564-mile natural gas pipeline in West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina. The application for the $5.1 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline is intended to deliver cleaner burning natural gas as utilities move away from coal-burning power plants amid tighter federal rules. The pipeline is proposed by Dominion Resources Inc., Duke Energy and two partners. It would carry natural gas from Marcellus shale drilling in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia to the Southeast.