THE TREE SITTERS: ACTIVISTS HAVE HALTED PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION. Bent Mountain, Virginia. Mountain Valley Pipeline

https://www.blueridgeoutdoors.com/go-outside/tree-sitters-activists-have-halted-pipeline-construction/

Red Terry is a 61-year-old Virginia mountain woman who since April 2 has been living in a tree inside the white-and-blue-taped corridor marked out for the interstate Mountain Valley Pipeline. She and her 30-year-old daughter Minor, who is stationed in another tree not far away, are defending their land against what they see as a looming environmental catastrophe.

To get to Red’s tree sit, you’ve got to cross wooden boards that cross Bottom Creek numerous times. Water flows all around you, supporting wetland vegetation like skunk cabbage across the property, where the Terry family has lived for seven generations.

A judge ruled on Jan. 31, however, that the company may use eminent domain to take land along the pipeline’s 303-mile route from northern West Virginia to southern Virginia. After Red took to the trees, Roanoke County blocked supporters from giving her supplies, and it provided law enforcement officers to supplement MVP’s security guards. The first person I saw at the camp, in fact, was a camouflage-clad guard whose path through the woods helped me figure out where the bridges were.

https://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2018/03/03/tree-sit-launched-in-path-of-mountain-valley-pipeline/

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Journalist Dies During German Police Sweep of Hambach Forest

from Unicorn Riot 

https://unicornriot.ninja/2018/charges-dismissed-in-pipeline-shutdown-case/

Charges Dismissed in Pipeline Shutdown Case.

Bagley, MN – Charges were dismissed against Emily Johnston, Annette Klapstein, and their support person Ben Joldersma in a criminal case stemming from an October 11, 2016 action that shut down tar sands oil from flowing through Enbridge’s Line 4 and Line 67. Tuesday’s dismissals represented the end of the high-profile felony case against the small group known as the ‘valve turners.’