Pipeline Company Showed Property Access Critical to Safety

A TC Energy Corp. unit won a court order allowing it access to property in West Virginia to perform subsidence mitigation efforts for a natural gas pipeline.

The company, Columbia Gas Transmission LLC, showed it’s likely to succeed on the merits because its easement gives it the right to use the entire property to operate and maintain the pipeline, Judge John Preston Bailey of the US District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia on Wednesday.

“This Court finds that Columbia will likely suffer irreparable harm in the absence of injunctive relief,” Bailey said.

The company’s interstate pipeline runs ...