Lisa Gets Politik<p>The MVP Southgate is an extension on<br>the dirty, dangerous, and unnecessary Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) in Virginia and West Virginia.</p><p>Its a spur to connect the existing MVP route across the border of Virginia into North Carolina.</p><p>The MVP has been defeated multiple times, now we need to do it again - and we have only been given until March 11 to comment! </p><p><a href="https://union.place/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <br><a href="https://union.place/tags/MVP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MVP</span></a><br><a href="https://union.place/tags/westVirginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>westVirginia</span></a><br><a href="https://union.place/tags/NorthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NorthCarolina</span></a> <br><a href="https://union.place/tags/Virginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Virginia</span></a> <br><a href="https://union.place/tags/MountainValleyPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MountainValleyPipeline</span></a> <br><a href="https://union.place/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-ferc-not-a-mile-more-for-the-mvp-fracked-gas-pipeline" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">actionnetwork.org/letters/tell</span><span class="invisible">-ferc-not-a-mile-more-for-the-mvp-fracked-gas-pipeline</span></a></p>
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Defenders in #Appalachia Against #MountainValleyPipeline Avoided #FelonyCharges
"Initially we were charged with #conspiracy. The real conspiracy is between the #prosecutors and the #judges, between the #cops and the #corporations."
By #AppalachiansAgainstPipelines, #CensoredNews, March 3, 2025
"Last Tuesday, 12 pipeline fighters had court in Giles County for charges resulting from three different actions against the Mountain Valley Pipeline in 2023 and 2024 in and around the #JeffersonNationalForest, including one site where #MVP was drilling through the mountain under the #AppalachianTrail.
"Eleven of the defendants accepted non-cooperating plea deals -- all of them were facing absurd felony charges, including
felony abduction and felony 'unauthorized use of a vehicle.' In the end, they plead to misdemeanor charges and there were NO felony convictions. They were sentenced to community service, probation, and to pay restitution. The court room was PACKED all day long with supporters!"
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/defenders-in-appalachia-against.html
#ReaderSupportedNews #LandDefenders #WaterProtectors #MountainProtectors #CriminalizingDissent #SilencingDissent #JeffersonNationalForest #AppalachianTrail #CorporateColonialism #AppalachiansAgainstPipelines #SLAPPs #WaterIsLife #NoPipelines #MountainValleyPipelineLLC #Virginia #WestVirginia #NorthCarolina #ACAB #CorporateGreed #ComplicitGovernment
bsnorrell.blogspot.comDefenders in Appalachia Against Mountain Valley Pipeline Avoided Felony ChargesCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
Blood Memories: #Indigenous Women on the Frontlines Inspire with Words and Action
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, April 17, 2024
NEW YORK -- "Indigenous women around the world are battling #FossillFuels, #mining, #exploitation and #oppression. The abuse of #MotherEarth is directly connected to the violence against Indigenous women.
"Women's Earth and #ClimateAction Network International hosted Indigenous women on panels during the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Wednesday.
"Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN executive director, opened the session calling for a #ceasefire in #Gaza, an end to the oppression, and return of the hostages. 'The killing must be stopped now,' she said.
"Indigenous women speak on the struggles, from the battle to halt the #MountainValleyPipeline and protect their burial places, to #Anishinaabe protecting the water and animals around the #GreatLakes and the battles against mining in the #Amazon, #Ecuador, #Colombia, #Brazil and #Peru."
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https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/04/indigenous-women-upholding-indigenous.html
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Register to oppose #fossilfuel projects- attend in person or virtually on 17 Feb.
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#Lakota #MamaJulz Locked Down, Arrested, in Jail, Fighting Appalachian #Pipeline
"Without water there in no life. Violence against #MotherEarth is violence against our sisters."
By Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 2, 2024
"'Find your Warrior Spirit,' said Mama Julz, Lakota, who locked down, was arrested, and is now in jail, for fighting the pipeline in #Appalachia."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/02/lakota-mama-julz-locked-down-arrested.html
bsnorrell.blogspot.comLakota Mama Julz Locked Down, Arrested, in Jail, Fighting Appalachian PipelineCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
Defiling Mother Earth: Stopping the #MountainValleyPipeline
Guest: Dr Crystal Cavalier-Keck, co-founder of 7 Directions of Service
https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/defiling-mother-earth-stopping-the-mountain-valley-pipeline
#NativeAmericans #FirstNations #Indigenous #LandDefenders #Appalachia #pipelines #SLAPP #SLAPPs #SLAPPsuits #SLAPPlawsuits #lawfare #StopMVP #NoMVP #ecoactivism
Inside the last-ditch effort to stop the #MountainValleyPipeline
The project is over budget and behind schedule, with a lot of hard work left to do. Its opponents hope that makes #FossilFuel companies think twice about building the next one.
By Katie Myers
Published Jan 16, 2024
"As day broke over the small mountain town of #EllistonVirginia, one Monday in October, masked figures in thick coats emerged from the woods surrounding a construction site. Three of them approached three excavators and, one by one, locked themselves to the machines, bringing the day’s work to a halt. As they did so, several dozen of their fellow protesters gathered around them, unfurling banners and chanting amid the groaning and beeping of construction equipment.
"They made their way across the field, over patches of bare earth, around sections of rusty pipe meant for burial beneath the mountain. Eventually the metal tubes will form yet another section of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which will soon carry 2 billion cubic feet of #fracked #methane from the #ShaleFields of #WestVirginia to #NorthCarolina each day. Their breath billowed in the crisp air. Beyond them stretched a bright blue sky, and mountains tinged with yellow. The past night’s rain pooled on the muddy and compacted soil beneath their feet.
"Workers in highlighter-yellow vests and hard hats milled around, some looking amused, others frustrated. One or two engaged with the #protesters, only to be told off by an irate site manager. A few miles away at the West Virginia state line, another three dozen or so activists did much the same atop #PetersMountain. One even managed to crawl under an excavator and lock herself in place, despite the cold. The others rallied around, enclosing her in a tight, protective circle.
Some might wonder why they bothered. After all, the project is, by the Mountain Valley Pipeline company’s estimate, 94 percent complete and will be wrapped up before summer. It stalled for several years amid legal fights over various permits, but Senator #JoeManchin, a moderate Democrat from West Virginia, almost single-handedly revived it in 2022 in exchange for his support of key Democratic priorities. Since then, the Biden administration and the Supreme Court have all but assured its completion. With the approximately 303-mile pipeline approaching the final stretch after almost a decade’s work, it might seem hardly worth fighting at this point.
"A large contingent of steadfast opposition begs to differ — and will enthusiastically explain why. The pipeline is six years behind schedule, about half a billion dollars over budget, and, despite promises that it would be done by the end of last year, delayed once again. The remaining construction is over rugged terrain, with hundreds of water crossings left to bridge. The company recently postponed, shortened, and rerouted its planned extension into North Carolina, a proposal long stymied by permitting problems with the main line. And, just last month, #Equitrans, which owns the #pipeline and many others across the country, was said to be considering selling itself. The road to the pipeline’s completion remains rocky, its opponents argue, with many opportunities to make finishing it as difficult as possible.
"'We cannot let them destroy our land and water,' said a young woman named Ericka. Like many interviewed for this story, she gave only her first name out of fear of reprisal from #MountainValleyPipelineLLC, which has begun suing #protesters in a bid to silence them. She had brought her three children to occupy the land that day. 'What are we going to drink? Where are we going to live? People have to come here and stop this.'"
#SilencingDissent #DirectAction #ClimateCatastrophe #NoFracking #WaterIsLife #SLAPPs #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship
#HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #BigOilAndGas
Grist · Inside the last-ditch effort to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline
Demonstrators Decry #SLAPP Lawsuits Targeting Movement Against #MountainValleyPipeline
via @igd December 21, 2023
"Report on recent protest in Abingdon, Virginia against SLAPP lawsuits targeting the movement fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP).
"Mountain Valley Pipeline is suing dozens of pipeline opponents in multiple jurisdictions for millions of dollars as part of a campaign of ongoing repression. Penn Stuart, the law firm behind the injunctions currently being levied against pipeline fighters in Virginia, and their Lawyer Wade Massie are hired by EQT Midstream, the largest partner in the MVP. Today, people had an office party at the Penn Stuart offices in Abingdon, VA, causing a ruckus."
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https://itsgoingdown.org/demonstrators-decry-slapp-lawsuits-mvp/
It's Going Down · Demonstrators Decry SLAPP Lawsuits Targeting Movement Against Mountain Valley PipelineReport on recent protest in Abingdon, Virginia against SLAPP lawsuits targeting the movement fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). Mountain Valley Pipeline is suing dozens of pipeline opponents in multiple jurisdictions for millions of dollars as part of a campaign of ongoing repression. Penn Stuart, the law firm behind the injunctions currently being levied against...
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like the #MountainValleyPipeline, #CoastalGaslinkPipeline and #PlaqueminesLNG export terminal in Southeast #Louisiana.
Sign the petition below, demanding #BofA divest from methane gas NOW.
- Rainforest Action Network
#EndFossilFuels #GlobalBoiling #ClimateCrisis
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Rainforest Action Network - RANSign the petition telling Bank of America to defund methane gas expansion now!Methane gas is a toxic & explosive climate super-pollutant. It's also the fastest-growing fossil fuel industry in the world. Sign the petition demanding @BankofAmerica #DefundClimateChaos & #DefendHumanRights by ending all methane gas financing NOW!
Remember #JoeMancin's pet #MountainValleyPipeline? It's still bad. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22082023/federal-regulators-safety-order-mountain-valley-pipeline/
Inside Climate NewsFederal Regulators Raise Safety Concerns Over Mountain Valley Pipeline in Formal Notice - Inside Climate NewsFederal regulators have sent a proposed safety order to the developers of the contentious and highly politicized Mountain Valley Pipeline citing concerns over potential pipe corrosion and land movement in the steep mountain terrain the pipeline will cross in West Virginia and Virginia. In the proposed order, issued Aug. 11, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials […]
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Here's the transcript & printable zine of our interview with Appalachians Against Pipelines about the struggle against the reboot of the #MountainValleyPipeline, endangering water, land & communities in WV, VA & NC.
Find it and more at https://tfsr.wtf/zines/#July2023
Supreme Court clears way for #MountainValleyPipeline construction to proceed
By Ariane de Vogue and Ella Nilsen, CNN
Updated 2:06 PM EDT, Thu July 27, 2023
"The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for construction of the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline to proceed, granting an emergency request from backers of the project that has the support of Congress and the Biden administration.
"The justices agreed to lift lower court orders that froze construction of the project while legal challenges play out.
"The Supreme Court’s order is a victory for #WestVirginia Sen. #JoeManchin, a conservative Democrat who has championed the project and pushed for it during #DebtCeiling negotiations in June.
"In the brief order, the court offered no extensive reasoning and no dissents were noted.
"The order came as the White House announced new actions to combat #climate-fueled extreme heat, which has been baking cities in the Southwest for weeks before moving Northeast on Thursday.
"Despite #ClimateActivists urging the #Biden administration to stop approving #FossilFuel projects like the #MountainValley Pipeline, White House officials have been supportive of the pipeline since it was first introduced in Congress last year. More recently, administration officials including White House senior adviser #JohnPodesta and Energy Secretary #JenniferGranholm voiced support this year for the pipeline’s approval.
"The White House did not immediately return CNN’s request for comment on the Supreme Court allowing the pipeline to proceed."
Read more:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/27/politics/supreme-court-mountain-valley-pipeline?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_msn
#SCOTUS #Manchin #StopThePipelines #KeepItInTheGround #Oiligarchy #Oligarchy #BigOil #BigOilKnew #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Please follow Jess Craven’s example and call your MoCs!
They snuck the #mountainvalleypipeline into the budget.
Let’s get up to some #goodtrouble and let your voice be heard.
Regardless of party.
We need to speak up. This is what responsibility we have as “We the People”!
Environmentalists in Virginia and West Virginia Regroup to Stop the #MountainValleyPipeline, Eyeing a White House Protest.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28052023/environmentalists-in-virginia-and-west-virginia-regroup-to-stop-the-mountain-valley-pipeline-eyeing-a-white-house-protest/
Inside Climate NewsEnvironmentalists in Virginia and West Virginia Regroup to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline, Eyeing a White House Protest - Inside Climate NewsIf Russell Chisholm stands in his kitchen in Newport, Virginia and looks east, through his window, he can see the tree-line of the Thomas Jefferson National Forest, a federally-protected ecosystem that is part of the Appalachian Mountains. Soon, the forest could be bisected by the Mountain Valley Pipeline. On May 15, the U.S. Forest Service […]