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Mountain Valley Pipeline, West Virginia, USA

 

Location:  The proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project is a buried 42” diameter natural gas pipeline system that would span approximately 303 miles from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia.

 

Proponents:  owned by Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC, which is a joint venture of EQT Midstream Partners, LP; NextEra US Gas Assets, LLC; Con Edison Transmission, Inc.; WGL Midstream; and RGC Midstream, LLC. EQT Midstream Partners will operate the pipeline and own a significant interest in the joint venture.

 

 

 

The 42” pipeline is expected to supply 2 million dekatherms of natural gas per day from Marcellus and Utica shale production (see fracking).

 

Installation of the pipeline requires 50 feet of permanent easement and 125 of temporary easement during construction.

 

Three compressor stations would be installed in Wetzel, Braxton and Fayette counties of West Virginia.

 

Link to www.mountainvalleypipeline.info

 

 

Opponents:  300 landowners objected to eminent domain application.  Concern for water quality; impact on wildlife and endangered species;  impact on natural springs and caves in the area; potential earthquake damage; leaks and explosions; Peters Mountain; Jefferson National Forest; the Appalachian Trail;

 

Tree-sitters: The first went up in late February, when protesters began sitting in trees near the Appalachian Trail on the West Virginia side of Peters Mountain, in Jefferson National Forest. A month later, several miles away, pipeline opponents raised a monopod atop a fallen tree and tied it to a gate on the Virginia side to block an access road to a pipeline construction site. All three of those actions took place on National Forest land, and they were erected to slow down or stop the company’s plans to bore a hole through the mountain, beneath the federally protected trail.

 

Inspired by the tree sits on Peters Mountain, Red and Minor went up into their respective stands on April 2. Later that month, on the same day I visited Red, another three protesters took to the trees in Franklin County, Virginia, on a farm owned by a couple who have fought the pipeline’s attempts to take portions of her land through eminent domain. (article)

 

Appalachians Against Pipelines

 

Little Teel Crossing (Reilly Family) “Family Farms Over Fossil Fuels”

 

 

 

 

NEWS (reverse chronological order)

 

Date

Source

Title

Comment

2018-11-15

Roanoke Times

Judge dismisses charges against Roanoke County women who sat in trees to block pipeline

Laurence Hammack

2018-05-05

BlueVirginia.us

Why is Ralph Northam Allowing a Young Woman to Starve for Protesting a Pipeline?

Blue Virginia, Jon Sokolow

2018-05-04

BlueVirginia.us

U.S. District Court Rules that Tree Sitters Must Descend by May 5 and “leave the boundaries of MVP’s Easements” or Face Fines, Arrest

lowkell

2018-05-04

Roanoke Times

Judge finds 'Red' Terry and her daughter in contempt for tree-sit protests of pipeline

Laurence Hammack

2018-05-01

WSLS.com

Ruling delayed for Roanoke County tree-sitters

Tommy Lopez

2018-05-01

WDBJ7.com

Mountain Valley Pipeline asks judge to hold tree-sitters in contempt of court

Joe Dashiell

2018-04-30

WSLS.com

Federal  court to hear case against protesters as tree-sits continue

Tommy Lopez

2018-04-27

BlueRidgeOutdoors.com

The Tree Sitters: Activists Have Halted Pipeline Construction

Mason Adams

2018-04-23

Youtube

Tree sitters take root in Franklin County to protest the Mountain Valley Pipeline

Franklin County

2018-04-23

WFIR

Roanoke County: tree sitters ask for, receive food

Evan Jones

- Bent Mountain

2018-04-20

WEBJ7

Treatment of tree sitters a continuing issue, as pipeline protest spreads

- Bent Mountain

2018-04-20

Roanoke Times

Tree-sit protests of the Mountain Valley Pipeline pose a new challenge for police

Laurence Hammack

- Franklin County

2018-04-19

Roanoke Times

Roanoke County police charge 2 women in trees blocking the Mountain Valley Pipeline

Evan Jones

- end of third week

2018-04-16

Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Directly in the Mountain Valley Pipeline path: Tree sitters halt tree felling in proposed MVP route on Peters Mountain

Charlie Boothe

- 50 days in a tree on Peters Mountain, Monroe County

2018-04-02

Richmond Times-Dispatch

A tree-sit protest of the Mountain Valley Pipeline has spread to Roanoke County

Laurence Hammack

2018-04-02

WDBJ7

Landowner launches new pipeline protest in Roanoke County

Bianca Homan

- “Red” Terry climbed tree on April 2nd

- Bent Mountain, Roanoke County, Virginia

2018-04-

WDBJ7

Tree Sitters’ Protest Spreads in Franklin County

- Four Corners Farm, Franklin County

2018-03-28

Roanoke Times

Tree-sit protest of Mountain Valley Pipeline escalates, drawing police response

Laurence Hammack

2018-03-22

WSET.com

Tensions flare when Mountain Valley Pipeline crews cut trees at Giles Co. trout stream

Annie Andersen & Catherine Doss

2018-02-27

Itsgoingdown.org

Tree Sit Launched in Path of Mountain Valley Pipeline in WV

- 300 defiant landowners refusing to sign easements

 

 

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APPENDICES

 

APPENDIX A

 

https://awareontario.nfshost.com/AWARE-Ontario/Issues/Oilgas_Pipelines/Other/Mtn_Valley_WV.htm

 

APPENDIX B

 

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