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April 29, 2019

Pipeline Protester in West Virginia Faces Terrorism Charge for Civil Disobedience
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In West Virginia, a 22-year-old protester is facing a felony terrorism
charge and other misdemeanors after he was arrested in a nonviolent
civil disobedience action aimed at stopping the Mountain Valley
Pipeline. Holden Dometrius was arrested Thursday about five hours after
he chained himself to welding equipment, slowing construction of the
fracked gas pipeline. Since February, activists have been occupying
trees in the path of the pipeline route in West Virginia's Jefferson
National Forest, where the Mountain Valley Pipeline company hopes to
drill through a mountain directly underneath the Appalachian Trail.


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