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Nina Lakhani in Monroe county, West Virginia and Oliver Milman in New York

‘It’s a deal with the devil’: outrage in Appalachia over Manchin’s ‘vile’ pipeline plan

Joe Manchin Chuck Schumer Mountain Valley Virginia Monroe County West Virginia
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Becky Crabtree on her property in West Virginia: ‘It’s the unfairness that makes me so angry.’ Photograph: Mark Trent/The Guardian

Taking on the fossil fuel industry in West Virginia was always going to be a David v Goliath type battle, but after years of protests, lobbying and lawsuits, 68-year-old Becky Crabtree thought the community-led resistance had beaten the Mountain Valley pipeline (MVP) in a fair fight.

So when news broke earlier in August that the state’s fossil-fuel friendly senator Joe Manchin had resurrected the beleaguered pipeline, Crabtree, a high school science teacher who teaches students about the climate crisis, felt “numb”.

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