Gas pipelines like the Mountain Valley Pipeline and others proposed for Appalachia and beyond threaten communities, climate, and local ecosystems, and create economic burdens for states and ratepayers.
Pipeline companies seek to seize private land through eminent domain to build through communities and waterways, burdening families with air and water pollution, fear of explosions, and other health and safety concerns. Building new gas infrastructure threatens to lock in long-term demand for methane gas, incentivizing companies to keep fracking at a time when we must reduce fossil fuel extraction to avoid catastrophic climate change. These pipelines also come with excessive costs to develop, which are often passed on to taxpayers and utility customers, leaving communities on the hook for decades while the polluting corporations behind these projects collect huge profits.
Through on-the-ground organizing with local partners, regulatory pressure, and legal challenges, we are taking every avenue to stop these dangerous pipelines.
Resources
Read more:
- Gas Pipelines and Export Terminals
- New Money Behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline
- Fracked Gas Pipeline: Expensive and Unnecesary
- Natural Gas: a Bridge to Climate Breakdown
- Fracked Gas: Nothing Natural About It
- The Mountain Valley Pipeline: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- No TVA Pipelines
- Dangers of Pipelines
- Interactive Map of Oil and Gas Pipeline Accidents
- Health Effects of Pipeline Infrastructure
- Factsheet: Cumberland and Kingston Pipeline
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