ENERGY + ENVIRONMENT

Photos: Mountain Valley Pipeline construction in full swing

By: Ned Oliver - July 30, 2018 6:05 am

Workers had cleared trees along the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Roanoke County. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury – July 26, 2018)

Ongoing legal fights and permitting questions aside, construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Virginia is in full swing. Hundreds of workers have flooded into the state to clear trees and install massive sections of 42-inch pipe.

These photos show the state of construction in Montgomery County, where workers are still in the process of removing tress and the clear cut can be seen near from Interstate 81, and in Roanoke County near Bent Mountain, where workers have begun laying pipe on either side of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

: Workers began laying portions of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Roanoke County near the Blue Ridge Parkway. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury – July 26,2018)

: Workers have cleared trees along the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Roanoke County. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury – July 26,2018)

: Workers had begun laying portions of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Roanoke County near the Blue Ridge Parkway last summer. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury – July 26,2018)

: One of many steep grades the Mountain Valley Pipeline will traverse along its route through Virginia. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury – July 26, 2018)

: Workers began laying portions of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Roanoke County last year. This view shows where it will cross under the Blue Ridge Parkway. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury – July 26,2018)

: Workers had begun laying portions of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Roanoke County near the Blue Ridge Parkway in 2018. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury – July 26, 2018)

: Cows graze along the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in near the Blue Ridge Parkway in Roanoke County. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury – July 26,2018)

: Mountain Valley Pipeline subcontractor Precision Pipeline has set up a large construction yard in southwest Roanoke County. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury – July 26,2018)

: Workers had begun laying portions of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Roanoke County near the Blue Ridge Parkway. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury – July 26,2018)

: Stream crossings are marked along the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Roanoke County, where workers had begun clearing trees. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury – July 26,2018)

: Workers have cleared trees along the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Roanoke County. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury – July 26,2018)

: Workers had cleared trees along the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Roanoke County. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury – July 26,2018)

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Ned Oliver

Ned, a Lexington native, has been a fulltime journalist since 2008, beginning at The News-Gazette in Lexington, and including stints at the Berkshire Eagle, in Berkshire County, Mass., and the Times-Dispatch and Style Weekly in Richmond. He is a graduate of Bard College at Simon’s Rock, in Great Barrington, Mass. He was named Virginia's outstanding journalist for 2020 by the Virginia Press Association.