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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)
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Date |
Source |
Title |
Comment |
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2018-11-15 |
Roanoke Times |
Judge dismisses charges against Roanoke County women who sat in trees to block pipeline |
Laurence Hammack |
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2018-05-05 |
BlueVirginia.us |
Why is Ralph Northam Allowing a Young Woman to Starve for Protesting a Pipeline? |
Blue Virginia, Jon Sokolow |
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2018-05-04 |
BlueVirginia.us |
lowkell |
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2018-05-04 |
Roanoke Times |
Judge finds 'Red' Terry and her daughter in contempt for tree-sit protests of pipeline |
Laurence Hammack |
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2018-05-01 |
WSLS.com |
Tommy Lopez |
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2018-05-01 |
WDBJ7.com |
Mountain Valley Pipeline asks judge to hold tree-sitters in contempt of court |
Joe Dashiell |
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2018-04-30 |
WSLS.com |
Federal court to hear case against protesters as tree-sits continue |
Tommy Lopez |
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2018-04-27 |
BlueRidgeOutdoors.com |
The Tree Sitters: Activists Have Halted Pipeline Construction |
Mason Adams |
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2018-04-23 |
Youtube |
Tree sitters take root in Franklin County to protest the Mountain Valley Pipeline |
Franklin County |
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2018-04-23 |
WFIR |
Evan Jones - Bent Mountain |
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2018-04-20 |
WEBJ7 |
Treatment of tree sitters a continuing issue, as pipeline protest spreads |
- Bent Mountain |
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2018-04-20 |
Roanoke Times |
Tree-sit protests of the Mountain Valley Pipeline pose a new challenge for police |
Laurence Hammack - Franklin County |
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2018-04-19 |
Roanoke Times |
Roanoke County police charge 2 women in trees blocking the Mountain Valley Pipeline |
Evan Jones - end of third week |
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2018-04-16 |
Bluefield Daily Telegraph |
Charlie Boothe - 50 days in a tree on Peters Mountain, Monroe County |
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2018-04-02 |
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
A tree-sit protest of the Mountain Valley Pipeline has spread to Roanoke County |
Laurence Hammack |
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2018-04-02 |
WDBJ7 |
Bianca Homan - “Red” Terry climbed tree on April 2nd - Bent Mountain, Roanoke County, Virginia |
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2018-04- |
WDBJ7 |
- Four Corners Farm, Franklin County |
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2018-03-28 |
Roanoke Times |
Tree-sit protest of Mountain Valley Pipeline escalates, drawing police response |
Laurence Hammack |
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2018-03-22 |
WSET.com |
Tensions flare when Mountain Valley Pipeline crews cut trees at Giles Co. trout stream |
Annie Andersen & Catherine Doss |
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2018-02-27 |
Itsgoingdown.org |
- 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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