Thanks for this "End of Line" story! I'm concerned about calling the gas, natural gas. The gas is un-natural gas, since they use hydraulic fracking to get it, there by destroying earth and water to get it. And adding toxic contaminates to the gas that can seep out as toxic liquid. We must STOP these proposed new dangerous pipelines and the GIANT compressor station! Thank you!

Drawing from the writing of Mary Lee Settle and a chorus of voices from Cedar Grove, WV, a reporter searches for a viable future for her home during a time of deep transition.

Cedar Grove Documentary

Cyrus Forman studies the hidden history of salt and slavery in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia. 

Salt in the Kanawha Valley - Cyrus Forman Extended Interview

Two-minute teaser for the pilot episode of "End of the Line" - an ongoing podcast about the pipeline struggles in Virginia and the mid-Atlantic.

Pilot Teaser

"End of the Line" Pilot Teaser

*UPDATE: At the time of the original airing of this episode, FERC had not yet granted final permits for the pipelines. As of Oct 13, 2017, both MVP and ACP have been granted federal permits by FERC. 

In the pilot episode, we present the question that landowners along the routes of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and Mountain Valley Pipeline have been facing every day for nearly three years: are these pipelines really a "done deal?" How are residents fighting against them? Can they win? We trace the beginning of the current pipeline struggles to central and southwestern Virginia, uncovering connections between the MVP and the ACP. We look back to the early 2000s, when Dominion lost the proposed Greenbrier Pipeline -- an almost identical pipeline to the currently proposed MVP. Organizer Mara Robbins tells how Floyd County was able to get the MVP re-routed away from their county in the fall of 2014. Also on this episode are Sharon Ponton, Ernie Reed, Connie Brennan, Carolyn Reilly, and Mike Carter. Music by Restroy and Lobo Marino. Original Air Date: 7/21/17

Ep. 1: Done Deal?

EPISODE 1: Done Deal?

Up next in Episode 2: 

Hear stories from Bent Mountain residents resisting surveyor trespass against the Mountain Valley Pipeline. and from Nelson County neighbors uniting in the face of controversial routes over the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

TEASER: Surveyor Trespass

In Episode 2, we hear stories from Bent Mountain residents resisting surveyor trespass against the Mountain Valley Pipeline. And from Nelson County, neighbors uniting in the face of controversial routes over the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Original Air Date: 8/4/17

Music by Restroy and Lobo Marino.

EPISODE 2: Home

Original Air Date: 8/18/17

What is the human cost of the heart of a pipeline?
In Union Hill neighborhood of Buckingham county, a plot of land is proposed as the site of a compressor station for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Compressor stations are the heart of the pipeline, pressurizing gas to be pumped across hundreds of miles. A compressor station is the lynchpin of a pipeline, as well as the most dangerous piece of infrastructure. Union Hill neighborhood, where the station is proposed to be built, is a predominantly African-American neighborhood founded by slaves freed after the Civil War. How does the history of this neighborhood coincide with the construction of a large, noisy, dirty and dangerous compressor station? How have the people most affected by its construction responded? Have elected officials or corporate decision makers heard their voices?
In the midst of turmoil surrounding historic erasure in the south, this episode tells the unique and troubling story of land, ownership and theft in the neighborhood of Union Hill, Buckingham County, Virginia.

EPISODE 3: Heart

End of the Line is an ongoing podcast about the pipeline struggles in Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic.

We feature the voices of those directly affected by the proposed infrastructure of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

Each episode of End of the Line examines an aspect of the local pipeline struggle, working our way from the very beginning to the issues at stake right now.

Music by Restroy: milkfactoryproductions.bandcamp.com
and Lobo Marino: lobomarinomusic.com

EPISODE 3: Heart

End of the Line

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