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Oct. 22 & 23 SSEP hearings in Danville

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POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · 7d

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is considering two permits for the portion of the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project that is proposed to be built in the state. Show up and add your voice to opposition!

appvoices.org/events/oct-d...

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is considering two permits for the portion of the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project that is proposed to be built in the state. DEQ will hold two pub...

Rural Resistance: Data Centers and Dirty Gas

POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · 20d

Opposition to the destruction of our rural communities by the dirty alliance of big data and dirty gas continues to grow. Let's keep it going through skill sharing and solidarity! actionnetwork.org/events/rural...

Join neighbors and advocates from Appalachian Voices, the POWHR Coalition, ARTivism Virginia and Chesapeake Climate Action Network for "Rural Resistance: Data Centers and Dirty Gas," on Thursday, Sept...

A BEAST TOUCH THE MOUNTAIN — Grandin Theatre

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POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · 23d

Roanoke, VA! Come to this screening and conversation with the filmmaker and pipeline fighters. Grandin Theater, September 17, doors open at 6:00 PM. "A Beast Touch the Mountain - Mountain Valley Pipeline and the fight for Appalachia."

www.grandintheatre.com

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POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · 28d

Looking for community? Ways to organize? Join us at the Circle of Renewal and the Rural Resistance events:

September 13 - actionnetwork.org/events/circl...

September 25 - actionnetwork.org/events/rural...

Circle of Renewal

Join us for a full day of people-powered movement renewal! Celebrate, grieve, heal, sing, play, organize and be in community with longtime Mountain Valley Pipeline impacted community members and advoc...

This blog post was written by Crystal Mello and Dan Ideozu Appalachia has long been targeted by the fossil fuel industry and enough is enough. Right now Virginia is being attacked from all sides. Fo...

POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · 28d

"Appalachia has long been targeted by the fossil fuel industry and enough is enough. Right now Virginia is being attacked from all sides." New POWHR Blog! 🔥

powhr.org/blog/enough-...

Enough is Enough — POWHR

Rural Resistance: Data Centers and Dirty Gas

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Russell Chisholm @baristanomics.blog · Aug 29

Ok, Bluesky #MutualAid family. A crew of 10 Holler2Holler volunteers are heading down to Welch, WV on Sunday to muck out a building. We need 10 shovels at roughly $25 each if you want to kick in for that! Venmo @ Holler2Holler

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POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · Aug 26

Pittsylvania County friends: this free, open to the public event will include a presentation on the connections between the increase in data center development and the overbuilding of polluting fracked-gas infrastructure. Dinner provided! actionnetwork.org/events/rural...

Join neighbors and advocates from Appalachian Voices, the POWHR Coalition, ARTivism Virginia and Chesapeake Climate Action Network for "Rural Resistance: Data Centers and Dirty Gas," on Thursday, Sept...

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Russell Chisholm @baristanomics.blog · Aug 18

🚨Update: Holler2Holler volunteer who supports dozens of our neighbors has a citizenship hearing on Sep 3. Legal representation will cost $2500. Please contribute via Venmo @Holler2Holler with the message “No neighbors in cages.” We're so close! 👏👏👏

Holler2Holler Community Not Cages. Update, $1,586 raised so far! Venmo Holler2Holler.

Whose Health Would Be Affected By the Proposed Swann Compressor Station on the MVP? — POWHR

POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · Aug 20

"Responses gathered from approximately every other home confirmed that the area should qualify as an overburdened environmental community as defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency." 🔥New POWHR Blog!

Following the recent announcement of the proposed Swann Compressor Station members of the 2022 Virginia Tech Lafayette Household Study research team are reflecting on their experiences and revisiting ...

Join us for a full day of people-powered movement renewal! Celebrate, grieve, heal, sing, play, organize and be in community with longtime Mountain Valley Pipeline impacted community members and advoc...

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POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · Aug 20

Can't stop, won't stop. #NoMVP

actionnetwork.org/events/circl...

Circle of Renewal

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: We Pay, They Profit: Fighting North Carolina’s Methane Gas Plan. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · Aug 14

Large corporations — Duke Energy, Enbridge, Inc., Williams Transco and Mountain Valley Pipeline developers — want to build a massive web of new methane gas pipelines and power plants in North Carolina. Join us on Aug. 26 to take action to protect your community!

Join grassroots advocates against the giant methane gas buildout in NC to learn about the state of the fight and ways to plug in. Co-hosted and with presentations by: NC League of Conservation Voters...

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POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · Aug 5

Three ways you can speak out against MVP Southgate! Via @appvoices.org.

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Protect N.C. waterways from the MVP Southgate pipeline!

Take action to protect NC waterways from the MVP Southgate pipeline.

Two pipelines, one path: Will FERC approve both?

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POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · Jul 28

“We don’t accept that there is a shown need for the projects, and it’s part of this broader over-expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure to serve data centers and [artificial intelligence],” said Jessica Sims, Virginia field coordinator for the group @appvoices.org.

www.eenews.net/articles/two...

Mountain Valley Pipeline wants to build a new natural gas pipeline in the Southeast. But Williams Cos. says its planned pipeline is all that’s needed.

www.eenews.net

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POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · Jul 25

“My stomach is turning knowing that if this capacity increase happens, with unanswered questions about the pipe safety, then people I love are in even more danger.” -Crystal Mello, POWHR Community Organizer #StopMVP

Mountain Valley Pipeline considers expansion in Montgomery County

The Mountain Valley Pipeline is considering an expansion of the controversial project that would include a compressor station in Montgomery County.

roanoke.com

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WarHen Records @warhenrecords.bsky.social · Jul 24

STOP MVP.

A reminder that we still have copies of this 2xCD comp available. All proceeds go to fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline. 40 songs! Feat. tracks from Daniel Bachman, Yasmin Williams, Nathan Bowles, Dogwood Tales, Sally Anne Morgan & tons more!

warhenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stop-m...

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POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · Jul 24

💥Breaking: EQT seeks to expand capacity on the mainline MVP, including a new compressor station in Montgomery County, VA and increased compression on the existing stations in West Virginia.

powhr.org/blog/eqt-ann...

EQT Announces MVP Expansion — POWHR

During its July 22, 2025 earnings presentation , EQT announced that it had commenced an open season “to gauge interest in additional firm transportation service on the Mountain Valley Pipeline (Mainl...

Tell the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Don’t grant SSEP’s permit!

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POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · Jul 22

Thank you, Representative McClellan, for elevating our communities' ongoing questions about this dangerous pipeline. Especially since PHMSA is denying FOIA requests and evading demands for full transparency about alleged illegal welds! www.wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_...

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POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · Jul 22

Corporate polluter Williams Transco wants to build a methane gas project that would push a massive amount of fracked gas through a 55-mile pipeline in Virginia and North Carolina. Sign the @appvoices.org petition to tell the agency the risks from Transco’s pipeline are too high! #NoSSEP

Pipeline company misleads the public for profit and fossil fuels - Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)

POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · Jul 10

ICYMI: "Transco doesn’t want you to know that hazardous sites are along its proposed route, that, if disturbed, could exacerbate groundwater contamination risks. The route crosses one Superfund site, two unlined landfills, five inactive hazardous waste sites and dozens of underground storage tanks."

Transco doesn’t want you to know that hazardous sites are along its proposed route, that, if disturbed, could exacerbate groundwater contamination risks.

cleanenergy.org

Burying Evidence? — POWHR

POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · Jul 8

“If the allegations contained in the lawsuit are true, it demonstrates a willful endangerment of citizens and a gross violation of federal laws and policies. It is imperative that this does not get swept under the rug by Mountain Valley Pipeline."

On June 3, 2025, reporter Mike Tony of the Charleston Gazette-Mail broke the story of a federal wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a welding inspector formerly employed by Mountain Valley Pipeline.

July 5: Atlantic Coast Pipeline Cancellation Day!

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POWHR Coalition @powhr.org · Jul 5

5 years ago today, community opposition forced #DominionEnergy & #DukeEnergy to cancel their plans to build the #AtlanticCoastPipeline. On July 5, we celebrate the community members, activists + orgs that fought for 6 years to defeat the 600-mile ACP! Stay organizing! (Via @appvoices.org)

Join us in celebrating five years of shutting down the Atlantic Coast Pipeline! On July 5, 2020, community opposition forced Dominion Energy and Duke Energy to announce they were shutting down plans t...

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Appalachian Voices @appvoices.org · Jul 1

The House of Representatives will soon vote on the megabill that would sell our communities out and give tax cuts to billionaires. Call your representative NOW at (202) 224-3121 using this script to tell them to vote NO on #HR1!
https://loom.ly/c1qqgbo #NOHR1

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Appalachian Voices @appvoices.org · Jun 30

Call your senators NOW to tell them to put people over polluters and vote NO on the pay-to-pollute megabill! appvoices.org/actions/say-...