POWHR Coalition

Community concerns highlighted in FERC Information Request to MVP Boost — POWHR In response to the MVP Boost scoping period, FERC now requires MVP to respond to three public comments made by community members. Community members have raised serious concerns on MVP Boost and provid...

"These comments make clear that the voices of affected communities cannot be ignored. Community members have raised serious concerns on MVP Boost and provided local knowledge and lived experience, yet gaps remain in MVP’s application and FERC’s review."

People protesting holding signs that say Stop MVP

We are organizing opposition to the proposed MVP Boost project, which would expand capacity at three existing MVP compressor stations in West Virginia and add a mega-sized Swann compressor station in Eastern Montgomery County, Virginia. Please support us into 2026!

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In 2026 we will continue to link arms with fenceline communities and organizers to grow the movement opposing gas infrastructure. Help us resist and build! #GivingTuesday #WeProtectUs
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First deadline to comment on MVP compressor station in Elliston is Nov. 26 There are two deadlines coming up if residents want to submit a comment with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about a new proposal to build a gas compressor station in Montgomery County.

Grateful for this coverage from @roxytodd.bsky.social and WVTF. Crystal went door to door to door to door and the people showed up!

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Gas Pipeline Proposals in Virginia Multiply Through the South—and Worry Community Activists - Inside Climate News MVP’s Southgate Extension and Williams Companies’ Southeast Supply Enhancement Project are proposed in close proximity within a single North Carolina county.

“What will the cost be when there are health impacts from an expanded compressor station? My heart goes out to these working class folks along the main line route who, their land, their water, their livelihood, psychologically, has been just so beat up over the past 10 years in this fight.”

Former Gov. McAuliffe joins pro-natural gas group as national co-chair • Virginia Mercury Terry McAuliffe to promote natural gas as a route to long-term energy reliability as renewable energy sources are built out.

Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe is the latest prominent Democrat to join Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future, a fossil fuel industry front group that seeks to influence liberals to embrace methane gas as clean, climate-friendly energy

Nov. 20: Virginia DEQ hearing on MVP Southgate Nov. 20: Virginia DEQ hearing on MVP Southgate

#Virginia regulators will hold a public hearing for a 💧permit for #MountainValleyPipeline's Southgate extension on Thurs, 11/20, at 6 pm in Chatham. Come to 🗣️ out against Southgate and to support community members opposing the project. #NoMVPSouthgate https://loom.ly/Zf_Rd6c

Residents say they're worried about health impacts from MVP compressor station The Mountain Valley Pipeline is hoping to build a compressor station in Montgomery County. Some residents are worried about possible health and safety impacts.

"Bohon's main concern is safety—what if there’s an incident or an explosion at the compressor station? His only access out or into his home is by crossing a railroad track right next to where the station would be, and he’s worried an accident could block the track." @roxytodd.bsky.social for WVTF.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: SSEP Pipeline Comment Workshop. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join the POWHR Coalition, ARTivism Virginia and Appalachian Voices for an online workshop about the 2 comment periods underway from the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project pipeline in Virginia. The V...

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is considering granting a Virginia Water Protection permit and Uplands Certification for the pipeline, and is accepting public comments until Nov. 10. Join us tonight for this webinar! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

FERC analysis finds MVP Southgate natural gas project potentially redundant • NC Newsline Another natural gas pipeline, the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, could remove the need for Southgate, regulators say.

"FERC’s environmental analysis found that the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project could remove the need for Southgate, according to the document."

Why not "remove the need" for both? Just to be on the safe side. 🤷‍♂️

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FERC releases Environmental Assessment of Southgate’s plans to alter pipeline Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released an Environmental Assessment for the methane gas pipeline Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate, proposed for Virginia and North Carolina.

“Never forget that MVP Southgate was defeated once already by frontline community members speaking out loudly against the proposed – and abandoned – Lambert Compressor station on environmental justice grounds,” said Russell Chisholm of the POWHR Coalition.

Oct. 22 & 23 SSEP hearings in Danville The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is considering two permits for the portion of the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project that is proposed to be built in the state. DEQ will hold two pub...

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is considering two permits for the portion of the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project that is proposed to be built in the state. Show up and add your voice to opposition!

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Rural Resistance: Data Centers and Dirty Gas Join neighbors and advocates from Appalachian Voices, the POWHR Coalition, ARTivism Virginia and Chesapeake Climate Action Network for "Rural Resistance: Data Centers and Dirty Gas," on Thursday, Sept...

Opposition to the destruction of our rural communities by the dirty alliance of big data and dirty gas continues to grow. Let's keep it going through skill sharing and solidarity! actionnetwork.org/events/rural...

A BEAST TOUCH THE MOUNTAIN — Grandin Theatre Wed 9/17 6:00 pm - Doors Open |  7:00 pm - Introduction | 7:10 pm - Film Screening | 8:40 pm - Q&A Location:  Main Theatre 2025 | Runtime:  1:27 | Ge...

Roanoke, VA! Come to this screening and conversation with the filmmaker and pipeline fighters. Grandin Theater, September 17, doors open at 6:00 PM. "A Beast Touch the Mountain - Mountain Valley Pipeline and the fight for Appalachia."

Circle of Renewal Join us for a full day of people-powered movement renewal! Celebrate, grieve, heal, sing, play, organize and be in community with longtime Mountain Valley Pipeline impacted community members and advoc...

Looking for community? Ways to organize? Join us at the Circle of Renewal and the Rural Resistance events:

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Enough is Enough — POWHR This blog post was written by Crystal Mello and Dan Ideozu Appalachia has long been targeted by the fossil fuel industry and enough is enough. Right now Virginia is being attacked from all sides. Fo...

"Appalachia has long been targeted by the fossil fuel industry and enough is enough. Right now Virginia is being attacked from all sides." New POWHR Blog! 🔥

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Ok, Bluesky #MutualAid family. A crew of 10 Holler2Holler volunteers are heading down to Welch, WV on Sunday to muck out a building. We need 10 shovels at roughly $25 each if you want to kick in for that! Venmo @ Holler2Holler

Rural Resistance: Data Centers and Dirty Gas Join neighbors and advocates from Appalachian Voices, the POWHR Coalition, ARTivism Virginia and Chesapeake Climate Action Network for "Rural Resistance: Data Centers and Dirty Gas," on Thursday, Sept...

Pittsylvania County friends: this free, open to the public event will include a presentation on the connections between the increase in data center development and the overbuilding of polluting fracked-gas infrastructure. Dinner provided! actionnetwork.org/events/rural...

Holler2Holler Community Not Cages. Update, $1,586 raised so far! Venmo Holler2Holler.

🚨Update: Holler2Holler volunteer who supports dozens of our neighbors has a citizenship hearing on Sep 3. Legal representation will cost $2500. Please contribute via Venmo @Holler2Holler with the message “No neighbors in cages.” We're so close! 👏👏👏

Whose Health Would Be Affected By the Proposed Swann Compressor Station on the MVP? — POWHR Following the recent announcement of the proposed Swann Compressor Station members of the 2022 Virginia Tech Lafayette Household Study research team are reflecting on their experiences and revisiting ...

"Responses gathered from approximately every other home confirmed that the area should qualify as an overburdened environmental community as defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency." 🔥New POWHR Blog!

Circle of Renewal Join us for a full day of people-powered movement renewal! Celebrate, grieve, heal, sing, play, organize and be in community with longtime Mountain Valley Pipeline impacted community members and advoc...

Can't stop, won't stop. #NoMVP

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: We Pay, They Profit: Fighting North Carolina’s Methane Gas Plan. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Join grassroots advocates against the giant methane gas buildout in NC to learn about the state of the fight and ways to plug in. Co-hosted and with presentations by: NC League of Conservation Voters...

Large corporations — Duke Energy, Enbridge, Inc., Williams Transco and Mountain Valley Pipeline developers — want to build a massive web of new methane gas pipelines and power plants in North Carolina. Join us on Aug. 26 to take action to protect your community!

Protect N.C. waterways from the MVP Southgate pipeline! Take action to protect NC waterways from the MVP Southgate pipeline.

Three ways you can speak out against MVP Southgate! Via @appvoices.org.

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Two pipelines, one path: Will FERC approve both? Mountain Valley Pipeline wants to build a new natural gas pipeline in the Southeast. But Williams Cos. says its planned pipeline is all that’s needed.

“We don’t accept that there is a shown need for the projects, and it’s part of this broader over-expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure to serve data centers and [artificial intelligence],” said Jessica Sims, Virginia field coordinator for the group @appvoices.org.

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Mountain Valley Pipeline considers expansion in Montgomery County The Mountain Valley Pipeline is considering an expansion of the controversial project that would include a compressor station in Montgomery County.

“My stomach is turning knowing that if this capacity increase happens, with unanswered questions about the pipe safety, then people I love are in even more danger.” -Crystal Mello, POWHR Community Organizer #StopMVP

STOP MVP.

A reminder that we still have copies of this 2xCD comp available. All proceeds go to fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline. 40 songs! Feat. tracks from Daniel Bachman, Yasmin Williams, Nathan Bowles, Dogwood Tales, Sally Anne Morgan & tons more!

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EQT Announces MVP Expansion — POWHR During its July 22, 2025 earnings presentation , EQT announced that it had commenced an open season “to gauge interest in additional firm transportation service on the Mountain Valley Pipeline (Mainl...

💥Breaking: EQT seeks to expand capacity on the mainline MVP, including a new compressor station in Montgomery County, VA and increased compression on the existing stations in West Virginia.

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Thank you, Representative McClellan, for elevating our communities' ongoing questions about this dangerous pipeline. Especially since PHMSA is denying FOIA requests and evading demands for full transparency about alleged illegal welds! www.wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_...

Tell the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Don’t grant SSEP’s permit!

Corporate polluter Williams Transco wants to build a methane gas project that would push a massive amount of fracked gas through a 55-mile pipeline in Virginia and North Carolina. Sign the @appvoices.org petition to tell the agency the risks from Transco’s pipeline are too high! #NoSSEP

Pipeline company misleads the public for profit and fossil fuels - Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) Transco doesn’t want you to know that hazardous sites are along its proposed route, that, if disturbed, could exacerbate groundwater contamination risks.

ICYMI: "Transco doesn’t want you to know that hazardous sites are along its proposed route, that, if disturbed, could exacerbate groundwater contamination risks. The route crosses one Superfund site, two unlined landfills, five inactive hazardous waste sites and dozens of underground storage tanks."