The Rover Pipeline would like to start horizontal directional drilling again, but the FERC isn’t allowing it.

In a letter to Rover, FERC listed several things it’s expecting Rover to do, including figure out where the diesel fuel came from in what was supposed to be only bentonite drilling mud and let its supervisors and workers talk with FERC about the incidents.

While we at Nuttall Legal sure hope that this will educate the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline on how to go about things, we don’t expect it.  These companies only want to get pipe in the ground as fast as possible.  If cutting a few “unimportant” corners will get pipe in the ground faster, the corners will get cut.

When construction on the pipelines begins, don’t expect it to all go smoothly.