Landowners fight pipeline in case headed to US appeals court
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May 10, 2018
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — George Jones was against the Mountain Valley Pipeline from the start.
The natural gas pipeline is routed to run through the southwest Virginia farm his family has owned for seven generations. The 88-year-old Navy veteran never considered signing an easement agreement with the developers, because he thought the whole thing seemed an affront to his property rights. But state law meant he couldn't even keep surveyors out.
As work chugs along toward having the pipeline in service by the end of the year, Jones and a coalition of more than a dozen other like-minded Virginia and...
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