Southern Cultures magazine - Fall 2023 issue | Snapshot: Culture.

Sixty views of climate change in this issue. I was asked to contribute to this issue with my work on the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The editors chose this image which shows clear cutting of trees up a mountain near Elliston, Virginia - prior to digging the pipeline cut. Drone aerial, B&W conversion in Capture One. @southerncultures #mountainvalleypipeline #mvp #droneaerial #landscapephotography

New Sticky Weather newsletter is out today! In this issue: someone claims to have sabotaged construction equipment working on the #MountainValleyPipeline, locally-acquired #malaria and #denguefever cases are popping up in #Texas and #Florida, activists sue again to #StopCopCity, and more. #climate #news #thesouth https://open.substack.com/pub/stickyweather/p/tensions-still-high-over-the-mountain?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Scott rips "environmental President" Biden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbR3304gsLI&ab_channel=GreenandRedPodcast

#Climate #disaster is upon us. #Maui recently saw devastating fires. #Hurricane #Hillary just hit #Baja #California #Mexico and southern California. Yet the #Biden administration #approves #fossil #fuel #projects like #Willow and the #MountainValleyPipeline. #Youth voters #rank the #climatecrisis as one of the most #critical #issues of the day, yet the Biden #administration #continues to do the #wrongthing on it. Scott rips Biden on his #failure as an #environmental or climate #president.

#RedGreen #podcast

Remember #JoeMancin's pet #MountainValleyPipeline? It's still bad. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22082023/federal-regulators-safety-order-mountain-valley-pipeline/

Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline w/ Appalachians Against Pipelines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wuKMytFZSQ&ab_channel=GreenandRedPodcast

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.

#greenred #podcast #mountainvalleypipeline #appalachia #appalachiansagainstpipelines #joemanchin #joebiden #scotus #politics #money #bribery #profit #pollution #healthrisk #waterdefenders #climatedefense

Supreme Court clears way for #MountainValleyPipeline construction to proceed

By Ariane de Vogue and Ella Nilsen, CNN
Updated 2:06 PM EDT, Thu July 27, 2023

"The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for construction of the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline to proceed, granting an emergency request from backers of the project that has the support of Congress and the Biden administration.

"The justices agreed to lift lower court orders that froze construction of the project while legal challenges play out.

"The Supreme Court’s order is a victory for #WestVirginia Sen. #JoeManchin, a conservative Democrat who has championed the project and pushed for it during #DebtCeiling negotiations in June.

"In the brief order, the court offered no extensive reasoning and no dissents were noted.

"The order came as the White House announced new actions to combat #climate-fueled extreme heat, which has been baking cities in the Southwest for weeks before moving Northeast on Thursday.

"Despite #ClimateActivists urging the Biden administration to stop approving #FossilFuel projects like the #MountainValley Pipeline, White House officials have been supportive of the pipeline since it was first introduced in Congress last year. More recently, administration officials including White House senior adviser #JohnPodesta and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm voiced support this year for the pipeline’s approval.

"The White House did not immediately return CNN’s request for comment on the Supreme Court allowing the pipeline to proceed."

Read more:

#SCOTUS #Manchin #StopThePipelines #KeepItInTheGround #Oiligarchy #Oligarchy #BigOil #BigOilKnew #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

“The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the construction of the #MountainValleyPipeline could resume immediately. In doing so, the court affirmed certain powers that Congress has over federal courts, and all but ensured quick completion of the natural gas pipeline.” #ClimateCrisis https://kuow.org/stories/supreme-court-oks-completion-of-mountain-valley-gas-pipeline

Supreme Court Allows Work to Continue on Mountain Valley Pipeline https://politicaliq.com/2023/07/27/supreme-court-allows-work-to-continue-on-mountain-valley-pipeline/ #SCOTUS #pipeline #NaturalGas #MountainValleyPipeline #environmental #WildernessSociety #JoeManchin #Virginia #politicaliq #news #politics

This time, however, #pipeline advocates had a new federal #law on their side — & in an unusual place. Tucked into last month's deal to raise the #DebtCeiling & avoid default was a provision Sen #JoeManchin insisted on in exchange for his support. In explicit terms, #Congress not only approved the #MountainValleyPipeline, but "#Section234" of the debt ceiling bill also took away the ability of #FederalCourts to hear any remaining challenges to it (um, what?).

#SCOTUS

#SCOTUS OKs completion of #MountainValleyPipeline

The pipeline is controversial, & over the past 6 yrs, various lower federal court decisions have interrupted & delayed its construction. In the current round of #litigation, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order that temporarily blocked completion of the #pipeline while the court reviewed #ForestService & #BureauOfLandManagement authorizations for the pipeline's completion.

#JoeManchin
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1189805221/supreme-court-mountain-valley-gas-pipeline?origin=NOTIFY

Remember the #MountainValleyPipeline for fracked gas that #JoeManchin insisted be jammed into the debt ceiling deal? Well, a judge has blocked it, at least for now, due to pending lawsuits. Manchin is not pleased, so to Joe I wish a hearty "go eff yourself." https://www.commondreams.org/news/court-halts-mountain-valley-pipeline

Continuing Struggle Against The Mountain Valley Pipeline | The Final Straw Radio Podcast

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/08/continuing-struggle-against-the-mountain-valley-pipeline/

This week, we’re sharing a conversation with Rose and Crystal, two comrades involved in the struggle against the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 304 mile, 41 inch in diameter liquefied so-called natural gas pipeline with a possible 75 mile extension crossing many delicate waterways, slopes and communities across Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina.
#protest #podcast #LNG #pipeline #MountainValleyPipeline #ecocide #EarthDefenders #CorporateGreed #ComplicitGovernment

Continuing Struggle Against The Mountain Valley Pipeline | The Final Straw Radio Podcast

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/08/continuing-struggle-against-the-mountain-valley-pipeline/

This week, we’re sharing a conversation with Rose and Crystal, two comrades involved in the struggle against the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 304 mile, 41 inch in diameter liquefied so-called natural gas pipeline with a possible 75 mile extension crossing many delicate waterways, slopes and communities across Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina.
#protest #potcast #LNG #pipeline #MountainValleyPipeline #ecocide #EarthDefenders #CorporateGreed #ComplicitGovernment

The hypocrisy of the #Biden admin is gross. He lies about no more rubberstamping #fossilfuels, then rubberstamps #willowoilproject & #mountainvalleypipeline and has the gall to then lecture #China on #ClimateChange.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/08/business/us-treasury-chief-yellen-appeals-china-cooperation-climate-other-global-challenges/

In my latest, I take a look at why the #MountainValleyPipeline simply isn't the most important climate consideration in the #debtceiling deal.

But more centrally: we will not stop oil and gas by stopping supply and must instead build the alternative.

There's a lot of confusion around this issue, so I lay out why trying to stop fossil fuels on the demand side is futile in 3 main points: /1

#climatecrisis #energytransition

https://medium.com/@croselund/there-are-bigger-climate-concerns-than-the-mountain-valley-pipeline-10cee60d72f0

@croselund This essay clearly articulates a super important point for focusing our efforts on climate. Building much more #wind and #solar, and reducing demand for #enduses of those fuels (e.g. via #EVs, #buildingcodes & #fuelswitching), are the most effective and require most of our effort. Stopping new pipelines or new wells, e.g. #willow or #MountainValleyPipeline, has little or no effect. Counteritive, and not understood by many or most activists, right? This Medium article explains why.

In my latest piece of independent writing, I take aim at what I consider one of the greatest misunderstandings of the climate movement, using the example of the #MountainValleyPipeline.

The struggle for a livable climate will be decided not by stopping fossil fuel supply, but by eliminating demand for fossil fuels.

#climatecrisis #energytransition #debtceiling

https://medium.com/@croselund/10cee60d72f0

An unpopular pipeline project
Expedited by a debt deal
Its ties to the former Chief of Staff
Unveiling an ugly appeal

#mountainvalleypipeline #westvirginia #debtceiling #oilandgas #poetry

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-ugly-part-hayes-on-the-debt-deal-expediting-the-manchin-backed-pipeline-179207749727

I rarely agree with corporate democrats, however on this, I agree 💯 with Senator #TimKaine

#MountainValleyPipeline
#DebtLimit
#JoeManchinFamilyProject

https://azdailysun.com/opinion/#tracking-source=main-nav
It was #Manchin, not Republicans, who got the increase in coal plants into the debt deal. #MountainValleyPipeline. Why does #ActBlue help Manchin take from small donors?