Rover Natural Gas Pipeline
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Rover Natural Gas Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline located in the Upper Midwest.[1]
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Location
The Rover Pipeline route spans approximately 713-miles originating in Southeastern Ohio, Western West Virginia, and Southwestern Pennsylvania and continues north across the state of Ohio to an interconnection in Defiance, Ohio, in the Northwest. It then crosse into Michigan where it terminates in Livingston County.[2]
Project Details
- Operator: Energy Transfer Partners
- Current capacity: 3250 million cubic feet per day
- Proposed capacity:
- Length: 713 miles / 1147 km
- Status: Operating
- Start Year: 2017
Background
The Rover Natural Gas Pipeline, owned by Energy Transfer Partners, spans 713 miles and has a capacity of 3.25 billion cubic feet per day. The pipeline delivers gas from the Marcellus and Utica Shale production areas to deliver gas throughout Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, along with other parts of U.S. through interconnecting pipelines. Gas from the pipeline is also be exported to parts of Canada.[3]
Opposition
Lawyers representing 140 clients, mostly farmers in Ohio, have sought compensation for damages to their clients' farmland. Farmers decried methods used by the pipeline company, such as pumping out water from ditches directly onto crop fields, thus inundating them severely. Additionally, farmers said the trench work also took nutrient-poor soil from below and mixed it with the top-soil, thus significantly harming future corp yields.[4]
Construction halt and Environmental Damage
In May 2017, just seven weeks into construction, a massive spill of drilling mud containing chemicals spilled into sensitive wetlands near a construction site. Both the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and FERC ordered the company to halt construction and pay $431,000 in fines. The Ohio EPA had to request FERC's intervention as the company leading the pipeline construction refused to acknowledge the jurisdiction of any agency outside of FERC. There were 17 incidents preceding the spill, 7 of which lead to violations.[5]
In August 2017 the pipeline was partially commissioned,[6] and FERC approved commissioning of the full pipeline in November 2018.[7]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ Rover Natural Gas Pipeline, Rover Pipeline, accessed September 2017
- ↑ The Route, Rover Pipeline, accessed January, 2018
- ↑ Rover Pipeline, Transfer Energy, accessed January, 2018
- ↑ Phil Mckenna, Rover Gas Pipeline Builder Faces Investigation by Federal Regulators, Inside Climate News, July 19 2107
- ↑ Zahra Hirji, Dakota Pipeline Builder Under Fire for Ohio Spill: 8 Violations in 7 Weeks, Inside Climate News, May 12, 2017
- ↑ Energy Transfer Announces FERC Approval to Put Phase 1A of the Rover Pipeline in Service, Energy Transfer Partners, Aug 31., 2017
- ↑ ENERGY TRANSFER ANNOUNCES FERC APPROVAL FOR FINAL TWO LATERALS ON THE ROVER PIPELINE, Energy Transfer Partners, Nov. 2, 2018
