The Mountain Valley Pipeline is a 300 mile long fracked gas pipeline cutting across the mountains and waterways of Appalachia. For the past five years, Appalachians Against Pipelines (@stopthemvp) has waged a fierce direct action campaign against it with tree-sits, blockades and civil disobedience.

Along with battles being waged in the courts and the public eye, the campaign had successfully impeded the construction of the pipeline until Joe Biden and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin made an agreement to fast track the pipeline's construction during the recent debt ceiling negotiations. And with a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision (with all nine justices voting to greenlight the pipeline), the pipeline is moving forward again.

In our latest episode, Scott talks with Charlie, an organizer with Appalachians Against Pipelines, about the pipeline, the politics around it and the direct action campaign resisting it.

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Outro// "Across the Blue Ridge Mountains" by the Carter Family

Links//
+Appalachians Against Pipelines: https://www.facebook.com/appalachians...
+What the Supreme Court’s order means for the future of the Mountain Valley Pipeline — and for West Virginia (https://bit.ly/3DKWJy3)
+Supreme Court rules in favor of Mountain Valley Pipeline (https://bit.ly/3qq8CGv)
+ To get involved with the campaign, email appalachiansagainstpipelines@protonmail.com

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