Protect What You Love

Why rural communities in Appalachia are fighting the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline.

02.24.22
Protect What You Love (Photo: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Whitesburg, KYBy Mia Lazar

This story was produced and originally published by the Appalachian Media Institute in Whitesburg, Kentucky.

The Mountain Valley Pipeline is a 303 mile long natural gas pipeline that is currently being constructed in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia and West Virginia. “Protect What You Love” explores the pipeline’s impact on the people of Appalachia and why they fight so hard to protect what they love.

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