Bent Mountain Pipeline tree-sitters appear in Virginia Court. Red and Minor Terry.

https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Bent-Mountain-tree-sitters-head-to-court--500097771.html

SALEM, Va. (WDBJ7) "Stand with Red" became a rallying cry for opponents of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. On Thursday afternoon, Red and Minor Terry had a crowd of supporters when the two tree-sitters faced misdemeanor charges in Roanoke County General District Court.

The mother and daughter climbed into their tree stands in early April, in an effort to prevent crews from cutting trees on their property.

And they came down in early May, after a federal judge found them in contempt and threatened hefty fines.

During the hearing Thursday, their attorney Tom Bondurant questioned officers about the police presence on the Terry property, and the decision to establish a perimeter around the two locations where the tree sitters were protesting.

Minor Terry said the women began their protest after a deadline for cutting in areas with endangered bats passed at the end of March. And she said they came down after a federal judge ruled against them.

After the hearing, Red Terry said she has no regrets.

"I got to meet a lot of these people here," she told reporters, "and I think we actually brought this to the attention of a lot of people."

Judge Scott Geddes is allowing the attorneys to file written briefs.

The Terrys are due back in court next Thursday for closing arguments in the case.

https://www.whsv.com/content/news/Roanoke-County-pipeline-tree-sitters-stop-in-Shenandoah-Valley-482292621.html

Roanoke County pipeline tree sitters stop in Shenandoah Valley

The mother and daughter came down from tree stands on Saturday after a federal judge ruled them in contempt and threatened a fine of $1,000 per day. Now the two are on a tour across Virginia to continue their fight.

The Terrys claim the Mountain Valley Pipeline will hurt their family's land and water throughout the Bent Mountain community in Roanoke County. Tree felling in the area has already begun.

"They wanted to make a point to the [Bent Mountain community] who has fought them non-stop that we run this place and I wanted to make a point to them," Red said. "Not yet you don't. Not yet. We're not done fighting."

She says the government should be doing more to help stop both the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines.

"I feel like all the candidates and elected officials are puppets on strings," Red said. "Dominion and the power companies are running the country and telling our politicians what they want and what they can do and I'm tired of that."

https://www.virginiafirst.com/news/local-news/pipeline-protesters-struggling-for-basic-resources/1133831384
April 22: Update: Food given to pipeline protesters in Roanoke County but not Cigarettes... 

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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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.’