Two Major U.S. Pipeline Projects Face Cancelation

In the span of 24 hours, a major natural gas pipeline was cancelled and a judge ordered the Dakota Access Pipeline shut down.  Just days after Dominion Energy and Duke Energy prevailed in a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, the utilities scrapped the very project that effectively received the go-ahead from the justices. The 600-mile Atlantic Coast pipeline would have carried Marcellus shale gas to consumers in Virginia and North Carolina, opening up yet another market for Appalachian gas.  But the years-long permitting…