The Atlantic Coastline Pipeline project will not longer happen. | Stock Photo
The Atlantic Coastline Pipeline project will not longer happen. | Stock Photo
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline project has now been shut down due to Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive overreach of power, a Carolina Journal report claims.
The deal, which included Duke Energy and Dominion Energy, was canceled on July 5. If passed, the pipeline would’ve stretched across 600 miles and provided natural gas from fracking fields in West Virginia to North Carolina power plants. The potential project didn’t sit well with many eco-friendly activists, causing Cooper to deal with lots of backlash from the beginning.
While he touted a $57.8 million “mitigation fund” via Duke and Dominion to assist counties impacted by the pipeline, the General Assembly wasn’t allowed to use the money, Carolina Journal reported.
“Cooper’s overreach, from the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, to his stances on Medicaid and teacher pay, to his executive orders during COVID-19, establish a pattern of behavior that suggests he might try something like unilaterally spending money on Leandro to meet what he may deem a constitutional requirement,” Joe Coletti, senior fellow for fiscal and tax policy at the John Locke Foundation, told Carolina Journal.
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