{"id":62334,"date":"2022-04-01T06:32:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T11:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62334"},"modified":"2022-04-01T06:32:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T11:32:12","slug":"organizing-across-state-lines-to-stop-a-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62334","title":{"rendered":"Organizing Across State Lines to Stop a Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Activists protest against the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline at the United States Capitol on Friday, October 15, 2021.<\/div>\n
PHOTO BY TOM WILLIAMS\/CQ-ROLL CALL, INC VIA GETTY IMAGES<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Activists in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Nebraska are proving that building collective community power can successfully counter Big Oil\u2019s monied interests.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Emily Sutton loves the Haw River, with its boulders and whitewater, perfect for rafting. The river\u2019s 110 miles flow through rural North Carolina, touching six counties in the state. But the Haw, which Sutton advocates for as its\u00a0\u201criverkeeper\u201d with the Haw River Assembly, is also the backdrop of an ongoing battle against a proposed pipeline, which threatens the health of the river and those who enjoy it.<\/p>\n

Plans for the Mountain Valley pipeline were first announced in April 2018. The proposed pipeline would transport fracked gas\u00a0300 miles<\/a>\u00a0from West Virginia to a compressor site in southern Virginia, and then another 70 miles into northern North Carolina. This last section is called the Mountain Valley Southgate Extension, and it goes through the state to allow a major\u00a0stakeholder<\/a>\u00a0that already services nearly\u00a030% of counties<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0expand its market<\/a>. It is this section of the pipeline that would decimate the Haw River.<\/p>\n

The pipeline was originally supposed to be completed in less than a year and cost financial partners\u00a0$3.5 billion<\/a>. But four years of coordinated cross-state grassroots resistance to the pipeline\u2019s construction has thus far prevented the Mountain Valley pipeline corporation from laying even an inch of pipeline in North Carolina soil. New county, city, and state laws have a far reach in preventing pipelines that are slated to start in one state and end in another, as seen with a\u00a0Virginia state law<\/a>\u00a0that impacts the North Carolina section of the pipeline.<\/p>\n

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Organizing Across State Lines to Stop a Pipeline Activists protest against the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline at the United States Capitol on Friday, October 15, 2021. PHOTO BY TOM WILLIAMS\/CQ-ROLL CALL, INC VIA GETTY IMAGES Activists in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Nebraska are proving that building collective community power can successfully counter Big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[29836,1729,1476,657,32806,6085],"class_list":["post-62334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-liberty","tag-civil-protests","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-pipelines","tag-protests","tag-ray-levy-uyeda","tag-yes-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62335,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62334\/revisions\/62335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}