Dominion has announced that it is delaying the start date for construction on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.  Interestingly, they still plan on putting the pipeline into use at about the same time they had originally planned.  The new target for construction is summer of 2017, with the pipeline slated for first use sometime in 2018.  So what they’ll be doing is running more crews over a shorter period of time.

UPDATE: This article says the ACP will have an 18 month construction period.  If construction starts in the summer of 2017, that’s cutting it pretty close to 2019 before it will be finished.  Work on a pipeline can go awfully fast, but if there are any delays at all they simply won’t be able to finish before 2019.