VA Gentry Class Raising $1M to Oppose Atlantic Coast Pipeline

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Wealthy landowners in Virginia are halfway to raising $1 million in their effort to torpedo Dominion's planned $5 billion, 550-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Just yesterday we told you that a majority of residents in West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina support the project (see Poll: Majority of Voters in VA, WV, NC Favor Atlantic Coast Pipeline). The pipeline will flow natural gas from the Marcellus/Utica to points across the southeast. That is, unless NIMBY's raise enough money to run advertising campaigns to convince officials and regulators that this pipeline should not get built. Never underestimate the power of a bribe, er, a, "advertising" money. The new favorite phrase of those who oppose pipelines (watch for it in sycophantic media stories) is that pipelines are a "scar" on Mother Earth. How wicked and despicable to want to scar your mother...

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