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Concerns Over Proposed Cumberland Methane Plant and Pipeline

The Tennessee Valley Authority and Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company push ahead with plans for the Cumberland Pipeline amid concerns for the environment, property and public safety.

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Statement by Appalachian Voices on MVP’s request to place pipeline in service in May

Yesterday, Mountain Valley Pipeline sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission asking the agency’s director of the Office of Energy Projects for official permission to place MVP in service.

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Appalachian Voices statement on Government Accountability Office report on pipeline safety deficiencies

On April 3, 2024, the Government Accountability Office released a report to congressional committees on gas pipeline safety, which included multiple concerns with current data collection and reporting from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

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Ecological Impacts of Mountaintop Removal

MTR mine flyover VA and KY December 2023, location and permit numbers in the image title The Appalachian region is home to one of the oldest and most biologically diverse mountain systems on the continent. Tragically, mountaintop removal mining has already destroyed more than 500 mountains encompassing more than 1 million acres of Central and Southern Appalachia….

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Mountaintop Removal 101

Main / End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining / Mountaintop Removal 101 Mountaintop removal mine. Photo by Kent Mason. Mountaintop removal is any method of surface coal mining that destroys a mountaintop or ridgeline, whether or not the mined area will be returned to what is legally described as the “approximate original contour.” Methods of mountaintop…

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Fracking and Pipelines — Resources

Main / Stop Pipelines & Fracked Gas / Fracking and Pipelines – Resources ACP Virginia DEQ Hearing August Harrisonburg 2017 Visit the following websites to find more information about fracking and natural gas pipelines in the Central and Southern Appalachian region Community and Nonprofit Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance (ABRA)/Pipeline CSI – coalition of 52 national, regional, state…

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CANCELED: Atlantic Coast Pipeline

Main / Stop Pipelines & Fracked Gas / CANCELED: Atlantic Coast Pipeline In a monumental victory for the many communities that spent the better part of a decade fighting this fracked-gas monstrosity, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy announced on July 5, 2020 that they were scrapping plans for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Appalachian Voices extends…

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End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Main / End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Photo of mountaintop removal mining by Kent Mason Since the 1970s, the coal industry has blown up more than 500 of the oldest, most biologically rich mountains in America and destroyed more than 2,000 miles of headwater streams. Despite an ongoing citizen movement to end the destruction, and…

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Conservation groups ask federal court of appeals to review key Cumberland Pipeline permit

The Southern Environmental Law Center and Appalachian Mountain Advocates, on behalf of Appalachian Voices and the Sierra Club, are asking a federal court of appeals to review a state-issued permit for the proposed Cumberland Pipeline.

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Woman Says Pipeline ‘Wrecked’ Farm

Construction for the Mountain Valley Pipeline damaged Karolyn Givens’ farm, and she says neither the state of Virginia nor the company have been able to repair the land and water.

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