'They care about corporations:' Landowners demonstrate pipeline project's toll
WIRTZ — Little Creek ran chocolate-milkshake brown, surging with flood water as it splashed over its banks just feet from where lengths of the Mountain Valley Pipeline lay mounted on wooden blocks and submerged in ditches.
Two dozen people trudged through the mud and muck, surveying what was once a key pasture for Four Corners Farm, now gashed and treeless in anticipation of the pipeline.
“We’re walking along an open trench with a huge pipe that’s been sitting in it for about 10 months that is eroding away slowly as the trench is getting deeper and wider,” said Carolyn Reilly, one of the owners of the farm, during a tour last weekend. “This was the lowest and flattest part of our 58-acre farm, and right now a quarter mile of it has been trenched and plowed through by the MVP.”
Carolyn and her husband, Ian, along with David and Betty Werner, moved to the Franklin County farm from Florida in 2010. They began raising chickens, cattle and pigs with restorative practices — rotational grazing and no pesticides or fertilizer, among other techniques.
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