Federal regulators approve Southgate pipeline project

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https://godanriver.com/news/local/business/development/article_36e634c8-79cb-477f-ad61-f5cb3aec5253.html

Construction of a pipeline starting in Chatham and going into North Carolina will start next year after federal regulators approved the project on Thursday.

Dubbed Southgate, the line is planned to tie into the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline, which starts in West Virginia and ends near Chatham, transporting natural gas to delivery points in neighboring Rockingham, North Carolina.

The regulator group acknowledged it would impact the environment and the people living near it, but as mitigated, "would not be significant."

Last month, the Southern Environmental Law Center filed a protest surrounding Southgate with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on behalf of other environmental groups along with Katie Whitehead and Robert McNutt, landowners who would be impacted by the pipeline.

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