Rover completed the pipeline — which crosses Pike, Bethlehem and Sugar Creek townships — in 2018.

In 2019, the state tax commissioner valued the Ohio portion of the pipeline at approximately $3.98 billion.

Energy Transfer, which owns a majority stake in Rover, requested that the tax commissioner consider the delays and value the property lower.

The more than 700-mile Rover Pipeline, which moves natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale basins in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania across the United States and Canada, has lost its appeal for significantly lower taxes.

The Ohio Supreme Court on Aug. 13 upheld a 2024 state Board of Tax Appeals decision on the pipeline's public utility property tax valuation. The board determined the Ohio portion was valued at nearly $3.67 billion

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