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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Emma Pattee

US climate scientist risks felony by chaining herself to pipeline drill

Virginia state police arrest one of two protesters who chained themselves to equipment at a construction site for the Mountain Valley Pipeline on 5 September 2023.
Virginia state police arrest one of two protesters who chained themselves to equipment at a construction site for the Mountain Valley pipeline on 5 September 2023. Photograph: Jay Mallin/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Two women climbed in the dark down the banks of the Greenbrier River in West Virginia on Thursday morning and locked themselves to a massive drill, stopping work on a controversial oil pipeline project.

One of the women, Rose Abramoff, is a climate scientist and by participating in temporarily shutting down the pipeline construction she is believed to be the first American climate scientist to risk a felony in an act of climate protest against fossil fuel projects.

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