The Inter-Mountain photos by Brad Johnson
Unused pipe joints from the canceled Atlantic Coast Pipeline project currently wait in a Buckhannon lot to be shipped by rail to Louisiana.
BUCKHANNON — A previously empty lot in Buckhannon is currently playing host to equipment used in one ongoing energy project, and another energy project that barely got started before it was ended.
The lot, located just off Route 48 close to the state Division of Highways building, is the temporary storing place for replacement windmill parts for the AES Laurel Mountain Wind Project on Laurel Mountain, and also for pipe sections that were originally to be used in the now-canceled Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
“These were two big projects. Unfortunately one of them isn’t going to happen now,” Mike Ross, the co-owner of the…