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BY NED BARNETT MARCH 16, 2020 12:00 AM – Raleigh News & Observer https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article241177801.html The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a long way from being constructed, but it’s already proving a leaky conduit for cash. The cost keeps rising for the proposed 600-mile natural gas pipeline from West Virginia, through Virginia and down to the […] Thanks to all who were able to attend the Climate Emergency: Tri-State Pipeline Strike in Roanoke on Sept. 23rd! As part of the Global Strike Week of Action, numerous FrackFree NC organizations joined with activists and impacted community members from across WV, VA, and NC who are on the frontlines of the fight […] “Climate Emergency: Tri-State Pipeline Strike” will kick off at 10:00 AM in downtown Roanoke, VA, Monday, September 23, 2019! Wells Fargo Plaza, 26 Salem Ave. SE, Roanoke, VA 24011 As part of the Global Climate Strike week of action, we will be joining with residents and landowners across WV, […] On April 9th, a number of grassroots organizations joined with pipeline-impacted residents and landowners to lobby our N.C. legislature in Raleigh during the “Clean Energy, Not Fracked Gas Lobby Day”. The joint advocacy day focused on educating legislators on the mounting legal challenges, lack of need, community health impacts, and diminishing economic viability of […] Hope Taylor, Executive Director, Clean Water for NC We need to look at the way North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality has dealt with two proposed new gas pipelines as they were considered for construction, to see what it reveals about looking at facts and valuing communities in different regions of our state. It’s […] The most recent report submitted by ACP follows the decision by the Fourth Circuit Court to pull two key federal permits. Construction of new activities along the entire route has stopped, but ACP continues to “stabilize” the corridor, which includes laying pipe and backfilling trenches. Drilling under the Tar River in Nash County […] ACP builders are drilling underneath the Tar River, and this is a chance for activists to show your resistance! There will be a flotilla of canoes and small boats starting at 1:30 PM and floating past the drilling site to a takeout about 2 miles downstream. For those who do not wish to be in […] While influence is a tricky thing to measure, the regular pumping of donations to state and federal legislators and other elected officials by the fossil fuel industry is a majorobstacle to a clean energy transition. And here in North Carolina, one doesn’t have to look farther than the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) as […] (Read Clean Water for NC’s “High Consequence Areas, Blast Zones and Public Safety Along the Atlantic Coast Pipeline” Report) At 4:20 AM on June 7, a pipeline rupture was reported in Marshall County, West Virginia. “This is truly a best-in-class pipeline and we look forward to many years of safe, reliable and efficient […] |