DATE: June 29, 2018

After spending all day locked to a piece of excavating equipment about 20 feet off the ground, a pipeline protester came down Thursday evening to cheers from supporters and charges from Virginia State Police.

Virginia Tech professor Emily Satterwhite was taken into custody following her 14-hour blockade of construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline as it crosses Brush Mountain.

Early Thursday morning, Satterwhite climbed up the boom of a John Deere excavator, that had been left parked overnight on the pipeline construction’s right-of-way through Montgomery County.

https://www.roanoke.com/news/local/blacksburg/crews-prepare-to-remove-pipeline-protester-who-locked-herself-to/article_8298d372-63ef-5a9c-87fc-c53ef763dd74.html

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Kirk Bowers, P.E.
Pipelines Program Coordinator, Virginia Chapter
106 George Rogers Road
Charlottesville, VA 22911