Photos: Mountain Valley Pipeline opponents meet at the main Roanoke library
Mountain Valley Pipeline opponents gathered Tuesday at the Main Roanoke Library on Jefferson Street. Citizen groups called for a full stop-work order of the project.
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STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS | The Roanoke Times/Russell Chisholm, co-chair of POWHR, the Protect Our Water Heritage Rights coalition, speaks to a gathering of pipeline opponents and the press at the Main Library on Jefferson Street on Tuesday. The group is trying to get a full stop-work order on Mountain Valley pipeline construction.
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STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS | The Roanoke Times/STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS | The Roanoke Times/Dan Crawford, with the local chapter of the Sierra Club, walked into a pipeline opponent meeting at the Main Roanoke Library on Jefferson Street on Tuesday wearing signage that he removed during the gathering.
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STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS | The Roanoke Times/Tina Badger, Montgomery County resident who spoke about Bradshaw Road, discusses photographs she took on specific dates along the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline construction, during a meeting at the Main Roanoke library on Tuesday.
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Chris Peckman jots down notes during Tuesday's Mountain Valley Pipeline opponents meeting headed by Russell Chisholm, co-chair of POWHR, the Protect Our Water Heritage Rights coalition. Others voiced their concerns as a slideshow was presented with some of the documented waterways possibly effected by the pipeline's construction.
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Diana Christopulos, local environmental activist, speaks at a gathering of Pipeline Opponents on Tuesday at the Main Roanoke Library; as Freeda Cathcart listens behind her.
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Cynthia Munley (right in pink), the organizer of Preserve Salem speaks at a meeting on Tuesday at the Main Roanoke Library on Jefferson Street to a group of Mountain Valley Pipeline opponents with her concerns about the effects on the water quality, from the effects of pipeline construction, that feeds the residents of Salem, the VA Hospital and Lewis Gale Hospital.
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