Forest service imposes emergency closure along Mountain Valley Pipeline route

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A strip of the Jefferson National Forest, 400 feet wide and 3.5 miles long, has been closed for the Mountain Valley Pipeline

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Forest service imposes emergency closure along Mountain Valley Pipeline route

By Laurence Hammack [e-mail] 981-3239 23 hrs ago

In what it described as an emergency, the U.S. Forest Service said Saturday it was closing parts of the Jefferson National Forest where a natural gas pipeline is planned.

The order “was enacted to protect public safety due to hazards associated with constructing the Mountain Valley Pipeline,” according to a news release issued late Saturday afternoon.

With the exception of authorized personnel, the order prohibits anyone from being within 200 feet of either side of a right-of-way established for the pipeline to pass through the national forest in Monroe County, West Virginia, and Giles and Montgomery counties.

Also off-limits to the public are access roads that Mountain Valley will use during construction of the pipeline.

[appal_jack]

1. Freedumb!

This is exactly the location and circumstance where the freedom to petition the government for redress of grievance is absolutely necessary, yet here is the US Government acting like there is no such thing as the First Amendment. These US Forest lands belong to We the People. It's a crime to sacrifice them for a private pipeline, and beyond comprehension that protesting such on public lands should be restrained prior to even beginning.

I hope that this gets challenged and overturned in court.

k&r,

-app