As a result of environmentalist pressure and regulatory hurdles, the Mountain Valley Pipeline has been delayed.

Completion of the closely watched Mountain Valley pipeline will be delayed until next year, and its cost will exceed $7 billion, the project’s lead developer said Wednesday.

The updates from Equitrans Midstream mark the latest twist in the saga of the controversial natural gas project, which received Congress’ blessing earlier this year.

Mountain Valley won’t come online in 2023 as planned because of “unforeseen factors” that slowed the pace of construction and boosted costs, Equitrans said in a regulatory filing.

The Mountain Valley Pipeline was slated to be up and running this year, but the company that owns and operates the edifice, Equitrans Midstream Corporation, has pushed it to early 2024. This on top of the costs of the project, according to E&E News, have increased from a projected $6.6 billion to $7.2 billion.

Both Joe Biden and House Speaker Joe McCarthy supported the pipeline and agreed to quickly see to its approval as part of a debt-ceiling agreement that was reached between Congress and the White House in June. Environmentalists then tried and, thankfully, failed to block the MVP in court with the U.S. Supreme Court siding with Equitrans.

Despite losing in court, E&E News says climate cultists continuously targeted the pipeline and its construction in hopes of preventing its completion. Dozens of so-called pipeline fighters would go so far as to obstruct pipeline work by attaching themselves to construction equipment.

Dylan Bugden who is an environmental sociology professor at Washington State University, told E&E News that environmentalists may feel good about their actions but, ultimately, they will not prevent the pipeline’s construction. He says that the structural forces moving the pipeline forward are so strong and public opinion is on the pipeline’s side.

The pipeline should be built and environmentalists trying to stop it are nothing more than obstructionist goons. They undoubtedly were transported to their locations using fossil fuels and will go home to their fossil fuel-powered homes as well. Since it goes through the states of West Virginia and Virginia, is deeply Republican and the state’s legislature or Attorneys General should open investigations into the groups opposing the pipeline. Most of the environmentalists are undoubtedly from out of state and financed by nonprofits that donors use to hide their contributions.

Pipelines are the safest means to transport fossil fuels, which are the basis of our civilization. Environmentalist opposition to fossil fuels and the means to transport it means they prefer mankind experiences a new Dark Age, except themselves of course.

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