Seventy-five-year-old farmer Curtis Johnson doesn’t object to pipelines, but does take issue with some of their construction practices. Johnson sold easements to the nearly completed 713-mile Rover Pipeline, which originates in the Ohio Valley and is designed to transport 3.25 billion cubic feet of natural gas to Michigan and Canada. In […]
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Since late February, a small group of people have been quietly perched in two trees atop Peters Mountain in Monroe County. They are so remote, few have seen or heard directly from the protesters, but still there’s plenty of people noticing. It’s not known exactly who or how many people […]
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“I hope he becomes a God-serving young man, that he loves everybody as God loves us.” Jakari’s favorite food is chicken nuggets. His favorite word is “No.” He likes to play basketball with his mini-basketball hoop and watch “Blaze and the Monster Machines” and “PAW Patrol.” At age 2, and […]
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The weekend of July 29, 2017 brought the first gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer festival to Wheeling, West Virginia with several hundred attending the Ohio Valley Pride. We talked to some of the attendees about why they came to the event: “Today, I was around people like me. I […]
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Newport, Va. – The proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline has not been approved, much less built, but it is as real as the wooden stakes already in the ground to mark its probable path. The 42-inch diameter natural gas pipeline would start in West Virginia’s Marcellus and Utica Shale drilling region […]
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It’s going to affect our businesses for a very long time — probably forever. Georgia Haverty: It kind of snuck up on me. Slowly. First I heard ‘pipeline’ and went, ‘Oh’. Then I heard, ‘42-inch-wide pipeline.’ Then I heard that MVP has never built one this big… It’s like hearing […]
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