The VA Department of Environmental Quality is allowing the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s construction to pollute the waterways of endangered fish. Go to @StopPipelines to retweet memes with text or go to this toolkit to create tweets.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oTjGRW16t1ujKvu6NyFtN-kUkDMBm024gpkFQH8rxIc/mobilebasic

Encourage your family and friends to join you by sharing this Facebook event Twitter Storm DEQ Stop Work NOW on MVP.

Why storm the DEQ with tweets?

The State Water Control Board is meeting on Wednesday and MVP isn’t even on their agenda! The Twitter Storm will alert the Gov. Northam and A.G. Mark Herring that the DEQ isn’t protecting our water and endangered species.

DEQ has ignored the requests from localities and the Blue Ridge Soil and Conservation Board to work with FERC and MVP to reevaluate and revise MVP’s erosion and sediment controls (ESCs) before allowing MVP to resume construction. After a year of MVP’s ESCs continuing to fail in Elliston, MVP continues to pollute waterways of the endangered Roanoke logperch November 11, 2020.

Unfortunately, FERC and DEQ allowed MVP to continue construction resulting in MVP polluting the headwaters for the Roanoke River watershed in Bent Mountain, the habitat for the endangered Roanoke logperch. After reports of MVP’s new construction ESCs failing in Bent Mountain, DEQ “redlined” intense land disturbance similar to what MVP did in Elliston last year that continues to fail to protect our water.

Thank you, Freeda Cathcart
“Stop The Pipelines WVVANC”
contactfreeda@gmail.com

FROM: WV Sierra Club, December 6, 2020

Protect clean water from the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) before December 18. Tell Federal Regulators to deny MVP’s latest scheme to work around environmental protections!

Why This Matters — Now more than ever, communities, the planet and the climate can’t take any more polluting, unnecessary fracked gas. If completed, MVP would cross and damage 1,000 water bodies and would be a climate bomb; resulting in the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as 36 coal fired power plants every year.

Don’t let them get away with it. Tell Federal regulators to deny MVP’s request for special treatment to rush construction, now!

http://addup.sierraclub.org/campaigns/dont-let-the-mountain-valley-pipeline-build-another-inch/petition

“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.” And to this we can add environmental justice.
Quote from MLK, Jr. – 1967

Lynn A. Godfrey, Sierra Club
Community Outreach Coordinator, Virginia Chapter
Stop the Pipelines
801 Boush Street, Ste. 200
Norfolk, VA 23510
757.305.8284 (m)

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