Buckeye Xpress Pipeline

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Buckeye Xpress Pipeline is a proposed natural gas pipeline in Ohio and West Virginia, USA.

Location

The pipeline will run within Vinton, Jackson, Gallia and Laurence counties in Ohio, and Wayne County, West Virginia.

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Project Details

• Owner: TransCanada
• Proposed capacity: 275 million cubic feet per day
• Length: 103 kilometers / 64 miles
• Status: Proposed
• Start Year: 2020

Background

The project has requested FERC authorization to start construction.

Environmental Impact

In May of 2018, the Ohio Environmental Council, Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity filed a motion to intervene in a federal permitting process for the Buckeye Xpress Pipeline. The proposed 66-mile fracked-gas pipeline would cut through Ohio’s only national forest and cross 336 streams and 134 acres of wetlands, passing through 12 miles of the Wayne National Forest’s Ironton unit and across the Ohio River to West Virginia. It would expand and replace an existing pipeline and dig up 225 acres.

In June of 2019, The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) environmental assessment found that the proposed project would not lead to significant environmental impacts as long as appropriate mitigation measures were in place. In June of 2019, FERC accepted public comments on its environmental assessment. The Sierra Club, the Ohio Environmental Council, Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign, and the Center for Biological Diversity, along with several volunteer and community groups, were among those opposing the project. The project would impact streams, wetlands, and farmland, and threaten crucial habitat.