‘Fear and intimidation’: how peaceful anti-pipeline protesters were hit with criminal and civil charges
by Nina Lakhani and Hilary Beaumont from on (#6R20K)
Climate activists opposed to the Mountain Valley pipeline were accused of breaking West Virginia's new critical infrastructure law
It was around dawn on a chilly day last November when West Virginia state troopers forcibly extricated Jerome Wagner out from a 25ft-deep pit where he was locked to a drilling machine being used to finish construction of a beleaguered gas pipeline.
The veteran climate activist was trying to draw attention to the Mountain Valley pipeline (MVP) - a 300-mile (480km) fossil fuel project mired by environmental controversies and blocked by court orders and regulatory red tape until it was pushed through by the Biden administration in mid-2023.
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