Atlantic Coast Pipeline
The Effect of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline on Shenandoah, Virginia
Executive Summary: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is a pipeline that has been proposed to transport natural gas from the interior highlands of West Virginia to the ports in Norfolk,Virginia. The ACP will run from its source in West Virginia, through the Monongahela and George Washington National Forests, parts of the Shenandoah National Park, the Great Dismal Swamp, and hundreds of pieces of privately owned property in the Shenandoah area. The proposed route is highly controversial, and the pipeline has been rerouted several times in response to activist groups and landowners that are unhappy with the ACP. According to Dominion Energy (one of the main sponsors of the ACP),the pipeline will provide jobs and energy for those on the East Coast. Skeptics of the pipeline argue that most of these jobs are temporary, and the landowners that are forced to deal with the pipeline running through their lands will not even reap the benefits of the natural gas provided from the ACP. Aside from encroaching on private property, skeptics of the pipeline claim that it will further harm animal and plant species that are already endangered, cut through untarnished, ecologically crucial patches of national forests,disrupt tourism in the Shenandoah area, and precariously cross several streams and rivers that feed local water supplies and run off into the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean.Many of the reports and summaries of the ACP have been from Dominion Energy, which are obviously biased and misleading. Therefore the purpose of this report is to propose that more research action be taken from an outside party in order to fully and accurately evaluate the impacts of the ACP on all aspects of the Shenandoah area
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