Express your opinion about new natural gas pipelines

Running through Rockingham and Alamance counties, the Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate Extension (MVP Southgate) has been controversial project for years. NC denied a water quality permit for the Southgate project in 2020, but a new proposal is back. The NC Division of Environmental Quality is collecting public opinion.

MVP Southgate threatens dozens of streams, wetlands, and drinking water sources in North Carolina. MVP has a well-documented track record of water pollution and environmental violations in Virginia and West Virginia.

You can either use the Sierra Club comment form or submit your own comments by 5 p.m. on Sept. 12 by mail or through this link. Mail to Sue Homewood, 401 Permitting, 1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC, 27699-1617 (use project number 20181638; version 4). More information is available here.

This is an activity you can do any time you have an extra couple minutes to take action, until September 12.