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#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Resistance, Repression, and the Fight Against the Mountain Valley Pipeline Six Years On in Appalachia

For over six years, Appalachian people have been waging a non-stop campaign of direct action to stop the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), causing the project to be “six years behind schedule, [and] about half a billion dollars over budget.” Locals and their supporters are fighting the MVP for a variety of reasons: threats to their land, to stop the pollution of watersheds and eco-systems, and to block the “90 million metric tons of carbon dioxide” that will be pumped into the air over the next few decades the pipeline is expect to be operational. The corporate giants behind the MVP have amassed hundreds of violations of environmental laws and forced land owners to sell their properties in the path of the pipeline. Up until recently, the project was thought to be dead in the water, until it was resurrected by Joe Manchin, through the Fiscal Responsibility Act, and with the help the Biden administration, was fast tracked through the permit process...