{"id":562,"date":"2021-12-14T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valcv26.wpenginepowered.com\/newsroom\/virginia-lcv-condemns-water-permitting-decision-for-mountain-valley\/"},"modified":"2021-12-14T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:10:09","slug":"virginia-lcv-condemns-water-permitting-decision-for-mountain-valley","status":"publish","type":"valcv_release","link":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/newsroom\/virginia-lcv-condemns-water-permitting-decision-for-mountain-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia LCV Condemns Water Permitting Decision for Mountain Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND \u2013 Today, the State Water Control Board voted 3-2, with two members absent, to approve an incredibly flawed permit allowing Mountain Valley Pipeline to proceed with construction across water bodies in Southwest Virginia, a decision that ignores a track record including hundreds of violations of Virginia\u2019s water quality laws, and one that flies in the face of robust public opposition.<\/p>\n<p>In response to today\u2019s decision, <strong>Lee Francis, Subdirector de la Virginia League of Conservation Voters<\/strong>, emiti\u00f3 la siguiente declaraci\u00f3n:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout this project, MVP has shown no respect to Virginia\u2019s water quality or the Virginians that live in the path of this project. Today\u2019s vote ignores science, overlooks one of the poorest environmental track records in state history, puts an out-of-state corporation\u2019s interests ahead of what\u2019s right for clean water and our environment, and comes even as another state citizen board acted to do the right thing for Virginians by rejecting MVP\u2019s license to pollute earlier this month. While this outcome is disappointing, our work fighting this project isn\u2019t done, and there remain multiple pathways to protecting clean water even if state regulators refuse to.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND \u2013 Today, the State Water Control Board voted 3-2, with two members absent, to approve an incredibly flawed permit allowing Mountain Valley Pipeline to proceed with construction across water bodies in Southwest Virginia, a decision that ignores a track record including hundreds of violations of Virginia\u2019s water quality laws, and one that flies in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-562","valcv_release","type-valcv_release","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/valcv_release\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/valcv_release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/valcv_release"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/valcv_release\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}