Va governor confronted at energy event by anti gas pipeline activists

On the 21st of September, activists from a number of pro-Earth, anti-fracking groups disrupted an appearance by Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe at the Biennial Natural Resources and Energy Law Symposium with a custom-written peom. This occurred just before the "Natural Gas Pipelines"panel featuring a representative from Dominion and three days after Dominion formally filed for FERC to rubberstamp approval for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. This pipeline will desecrate a Native American burial ground and transport fracked gas from the Marcellus shale region.

The activists disrupting the Governor's appearance represented Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, SEED: Stopping Extraction and Exports Destruction, We Are Cove Point, and FANG: Fighting Against Natural Gas.

Dominion denies that any of the gas will be exported by facilities like their LNG export plant being built at Cove Point, MD. On the other hand, they also state that the pipeline will be "open interconnect" meaning "open to producers and market" which implies anything could change at any time concerning where the gas comes from or goes. There would be nothing in this to prevent a Dominion front from "buying" gas a fracking field via this pipeline, then "selling" it back to Dominion by a connection later added between this pipeline and Cove Point-nothing except Dominion's word, which few are inclined to trust.Wildvirginia.org has flatly suggested that stopping the Cove Point gas export facility would cause cancellation of both the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

The poem read out against VA Governor Terry McAuliffe at the Biennial Natural Resources and Energy Law Symposium reads as follows:

McAuliffe Knows

McAuliffe knows that climate change is real. And when it comes to pipelines he knows just how we feel.

He knows that fracking sucks but he must have neglected to tell us that he only said that just to get elected

he promised to be a “brick wall” for women of the state but does he think the health of our bodies ends with how we choose to procreate?

does he know that families are slowly dying from methane-poisoned air and waters? that fossil fuels like natural gas steal futures from our sons and daughters?

doesn’t he know that there’s nothing “new” about an economy based on extraction? that in Appalachia of all places the promise of jobs has zero traction?

Because we all know, even if he doesn’t that exploitation is not the answer when bodies are sacrificed for profit, the only growth is rates of cancer.

McAuliffe, we are not deceived. from you we expect nothing. your pipedream is our nightmare Your lack of morality disgusting.

you see nothing wrong with profiting off of the misery of our neighbors, in time you’ll see, this pipeline won’t do you any favors.

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