Bob Wise: “Reclaiming my time again, I am happy to work with the gentleman. As I say, I think the gentleman and I can…”

“Reclaiming my time again, I am happy to work with the gentleman. As I say, I think the gentleman and I can satisfactorily conclude what is done in West Virginia. We will build in West Virginia. We are not trying to affect Virginia, and Virginia's decision is Virginia's decision. We respect the gentleman for what he wants to do in Virginia, and we ask his respect for what we want to do in West Virginia. Having said that, I think this project is importantly moving ahead in West Virginia. This is a significant day, and those in the eastern end of the State can know that this project has reached that very, very important point. Yes, it very likely there could be an environmental lawsuit filed; we will see what happens as a result. But the important thing is that with this record of decision, many of these concerns have already been looked at, reviewed, satisfactorily met. We can now begin to move ahead. Hopefully we could see a ground breaking take place somewhere along this 100 mile segment between Elkins and the Virginia line sometime by the end of the year. For those who have waited many, many years, today is an important day. We have many more obstacles and many more challenges ahead of us, but the trip home is going to be a little bit better today because of this decision on corridor H.”