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18 Sep 14 - 07:22 PM (#3661651) Subject: Lyr Add: They're Building A Pipeline From: GUEST,Carol Denney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx2wFZS5YWM They're Building a Pipeline, C. Denney 8-11-2014 leaving Randolph County, WV they're building a pipeline through the mountains they say saying it'll bring jobs here with much better pay we really need jobs here and we need them bad they sent overseas all the jobs that we had we apply for these projects even jobs that we hate some crew out of Texas steps out of the gate they tear through our mountains they tear through our town after the damage they're nowhere around Chorus: we love our mountains the finest on earth no one knows better what mountains are worth a heart from the mountains is a heart that is blessed we love our mountains we know them best it's a war on the mountain it's a war on our ways for a handful of profits in a handful of days sometimes it's a gas line sometimes it's crude the rich they get richer and we just get used we know how they see us and it's no surprise we look so small in the company's eyes we look like nothing that matters to them one more little town they can deal a weak hand Chorus: we love our mountains the finest on earth no one knows better what mountains are worth a heart from the mountains is a heart that is blessed we love our mountains we know them best they're building a pipeline through the mountains they say though the floods have no pattern and the goldfinches stay the winter comes hard after too early fall the almanac these days is no help at all they say that the pipeline will help out our town won't be any leaks or spills on the ground they're calling it progress and we understand they're calling it progress all over again Chorus: we love our mountains the finest on earth no one knows better what mountains are worth a heart from the mountains is a heart that is blessed we love our mountains we know them best |
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19 Sep 14 - 05:25 PM (#3661994) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: They're Building A Pipeline From: John Minear A very beautiful and sadly meaningful song about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline which Dominion Power and Duke Energy intends to build from West Virginia to North Carolina. This is a fracked gas pipeline that will run over 500 miles. It will be 42 inches in diameter and will cut through two national forests, across the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Appalachian Trail. And it will cleave Nelson County VA in two from top to bottom. Nelson runs from the eastern face of the Blue Ridge down to the James River. It is a beautiful rural county, and it is home for me. Very recently, our Democratic governor has come out strongly in support of this project, much to our dismay. The project is in its very early public stages, still trying to gain permission from property owners to survey easements and rights of way. Once this project is approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, it will have the power of eminent domain and can go where it wants to go. Only 24.8 percent of the property owners in Nelson County have given their permission for surveys and the rest have said emphatically "No!" There is growing resistance to this project from WVa to NC. This song will help us in our fight. Thank you, Carol, for this wonderful song. |
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19 Sep 14 - 07:54 PM (#3662036) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: They're Building A Pipeline From: Betsy It might be useful to dig out a song "Photograhic memories " by Vin Garbutt (in the UK) Basically "they" were installing a 36" gas line not far from the front of his house . And so they did - put everything back as it was - that was 40 years or so ago - still a great somg though -= and none (to date) has experienced any problems.......... |
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21 Sep 14 - 09:51 AM (#3662403) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: They're Building A Pipeline From: GUEST,Carol Denney Thank you, John, for clarifying the context of this song, about a proposed pipeline threatening some of the oldest forests in the nation. The fracked gas is for export, not domestic use. Those who wish to can write about their concerns to FERC, the Federal energy Regulatory Commission, attention Kimberly Bose, Secretary, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426. The Sierra Clubs in West Virgina, Virginia, and North Carolina are good information sources. - Carol Denney |
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21 Sep 14 - 09:22 PM (#3662488) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: They're Building A Pipeline From: GUEST,Rahere The same with the Welsh gas pipeline. I met one of those behind it recently - they need to be forgiven, because they knew not what they did. And they need to be condemned, because they didn't find out. |
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22 Sep 14 - 02:08 AM (#3662503) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: They're Building A Pipeline From: GUEST,Mike Yates As somebody who loves the Blue Ridge Parkway and surrounding countryside, I can only say how sad this makes me feel. People's greed can be staggering at times! |
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03 Oct 14 - 02:46 AM (#3665564) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: They're Building A Pipeline From: GUEST,Carol Denney This one can be stopped. Please write to: FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, attention Kimberly Bose, Secretary, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426. It's absurd to destroy the most remote watersheds of several states to pipe fracked gas for export for profit considering the destruction in so many states for the benefit of so few. The Sierra Clubs in West Virgina, Virginia, and North Carolina are good information sources. - Carol Denney 510-548-1512 |
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03 Oct 14 - 04:29 AM (#3665586) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: They're Building A Pipeline From: GUEST,open mike Not to mention the environmental destruction caused by acquiring the gas to fill this pipeline!! I discovered a pipeline planned to cross 5 states in the west, too. The Ruby Pipeline crosses public land that has been home to wild horses. The horses have been rounded up and removed from their home. The disaster of Fracking is something we cannot allow to ruin our water, our earth and our nation!! |
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20 Oct 14 - 03:05 AM (#3670670) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: They're Building A Pipeline From: GUEST,carol denney The Sierra Clubs across the affected counties have picked up this song as a rallying anthem - if you haven't written a letter to the FERC ( Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) please consider doing so now, when it will matter the most. This is the highest, most fragile part of West Virginia, and the pipeline is slated to go through three states on its way through countless counties bringing fracked gas and destroying communities all the way along. Please help if you can, and thank you. Carol Denney |