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The same frackers and polluters behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), have announced a new project called "MVP Boost" to expand the capacity of the existing MVP.

The core of the MVP boost plan is to expand three West Virginia compressor stations, add a brand new super-sized compressor in Swann, Virginia, and pump up the pressure by roughly 30% (or 500,-600,000 dekatherms per day). All this added pressure on a pipeline that famously, catastrophically, failed hydrostatic pressure testing before FERC wrongly allowed it to go into service?

That's a bad idea and we only have a few days left to tell federal regulators to just say no. Click here to send a quick comment to FERC opposing the MVP Boost!

That picture above was taken by Grace Terry in 2024 and shows a ruptured section of MVP pipe after a failed pressure test. Local activists were lucky to catch the evidence on film as it was quickly carted away by the Pipeline's developers. And not long after, FERC approved the pipeline to go into service, despite this clear evidence that it was not safe, and over the literal shouted objections of impacted community members (see youtube link in sources).

We've been fighting versions of the MVP and MVP Boost for years, but on August 7, 2026, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) published a Notice of Availability of the Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Project which triggered a comment period with a deadline of Sept. 8th to comment on its contents.

Click here to send your comment opposing MVP Boost. As usual our page gives you tools to send a quick comment to the Office of Public Participation, as well as instructions on how to formally efile your own comment. We'll bundle all the messages together and submit them to the correct dockets to make sure FERC gets the message, and BXE friends will be outside the FERC monthly meeting in September to make our protest visible.

Thanks,

Drew & the 198 methods to relieve the pressure crew

Sources

1. https://powhr.org/mvpboost
2. https://www.ferc.gov/mountain-valley-pipeline-mvp-boost
3. https://youtu.be/3fcKfRuWtzw?si=hZDKCA4bLzUO6P1a
4. https://www.198methods.org/?s=ferc
5. https://www.198methods.org/?s=MVP

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