Welcome to the hell that those of us living in Doddridge County have been living in for quite a few years.

Felled trees, ground prep for the pipe, pipe yards, transient workforce, road infrastructure damage, excessive large truck traffic, noise and light pollution, flat landers trying to drive on our hilly narrow roads, sedimentation in waterways, erosion, slips and the tranquil life you may have had will quickly disappear. This has been and continues to be the hell that we live in.

Stop the drilling of new gas wells, and you may be able to stop more pipelines from happening.

Travel with your cameras so that you can document the violations that I guarantee you will be seeing. Get familiar with the WV DEP.

Mirijana

If you have not seen this yet, there is is an excellent documentary about the Mountain Valley Pipeline on the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) website.

Here is a link to the ATC MVP page, scroll down for their 4-part documentary.

Appalachian Trail Conservancy mountain-valley-pipeline:

http://appalachiantrail.org/home/conservation/advocacy/mountain-valley-pipeline

– Kirk Bowers
Pipelines Program Coordinator, Virginia Chapter
106 George Rogers Road, Charlottesville, VA 22911
434.296.8673 (preferred)
424.249.1439 (m)

We are looking at the snow swirling outside in the wind and beyond to snow-covered Peters Mountain where the tree sitters sit bundled, protecting our forest lands.

Boggles my mind…

FYI: Hearing scheduled on MVP motion for preliminary injunction against PM tree-sitters, on Tuesday, March 13, at 1:00 pm. The Monroe County Courthouse is at 350 Main Street in Union, WV 24983.

The Courthouse is located at junction of US-219 and Rte 3 in the center of Union. The courtroom is upstairs to your right after entering the front of building. Screening does take place, but generally cellphones are allowed.

Laurie for POWHR

POWHR: A Coalition to Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights

See also: https://powhr.org/

From Jake Johnson, Common Dreams, March 8, 2018

“There’s more opponents, and it’s more organized,” lamented Kinder Morgan CEO Steven Kean.

Pipeline executives are extremely upset that protests by environmentalists and Indigenous groups are disrupting their ability to plunder the planet at will, and they aired their discontent publicly on Thursday at the CERAWeek energy conference in Texas.

“And we’re just getting started.” —350.org

Singling out the “Keep It in the Ground” movement—which calls for an “immediate halt” to all new fossil fuel development—as a particularly strong obstacle to their ambitious construction projects, pipeline CEOs complained that opposition to dirty energy has grown in “intensity” over the past several years, posing a serious threat to their companies’ bottomlines.

“There’s more opponents, and it’s more organized,” lamented Kinder Morgan CEO Steven Kean, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline—which would carry tar sands 700 miles from Alberta to Burnaby, British Columbia—is currently facing fierce resistance from Indigenous groups and local governments. At least 7,000 people are expected to participate in a march and rally against the pipeline in Vancouver on Saturday, the Seattle Times reports.

Other pipeline CEOs appearing at the CERAWeek conference echoed Kean’s concerns, highlighting the success of efforts by environmental activists to delay, disrupt, and cancel projects through non-violent civil disobedience, litigation, and other tactics.

Bitterly recounting how activists tried to drill a holes in his company’s pipelines, Energy Transfer Partners CEO Kelcy Warren reportedly said: “Talk about someone that needs to be removed from the gene pool.”

Energy Transfer Partners is behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, which became fully operational in June of last year after many weeks of resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its allies.

Legal challenges to the pipeline—which has already spilled several times—continue to mount.

According to the Houston Chronicle, Warren said he has “increased Energy Transfer’s presence on social media platforms” in an attempt to win over the public.

Responding to the executives’ complaints on Twitter, 350.org—one of the most prominent organizations in the movement against fossil fuels—wrote simply, “we’re just getting started.”

“Pipelines executives lamented Wednesday that since the rise of the “Keep it in the Ground” movement, projects were being delayed by a rising tide of protests.”

And we’re just getting started. http://bit.ly/2Hkc0qh #KeepItInTheGround #NoKXL. — 350 dot org (@350)

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/03/08/fossil-fuel-execs-very-annoyed-keepitintheground-movement-crimping-their-ability/

They finished destroying the whole Right Of Way on Brush Mountain in the national forest. Next is Del Dwyer’s farm, and onto Bob Jones and Mt. Tabor.

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Devastating for Brush Mountain.

The apocalypse has begun.

Please be advised that the Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC (‘MCP”) has filed a Verified Complaint, Motion and Supporting Memorandum in the Circuit Court of Monroe County, West Virginia, against Appalachians Against Pipelines, Ashley Brown, Lucas Connolly, a/k/a Luca Connolly, and John Does 1-5, seeking a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction that directs defendants to immediately cease any interference or work to support such interference with MVP’s property rights, including, but not limited to, (1) MVP’s right to commence construction on the MVP project and, (2) MVP’s right to commence tree-clearing to meet a March 31, 2018 tree-clearing deadline. It is expected that the Court will schedule a Hearing with respect to the request for a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction in the near future. MVP will make every attempt to post a subsequent Notice relating to the hearing.

Dated: March 2, 2018

If you have any questions, please contact Scott Long, Hendrickson & Long, at (304) 346-5500.