Climate Change
A ‘Rights of Nature’ Tribunal Puts the Mountain Valley Pipeline on Trial
The Mountain Valley Pipeline entered service this week. At a public forum held two weeks ago, a panel of judges called it a violation of the rights of nature and the rights of Indigenous people.
In a sunlight-filled conference center at the Haw River State Park in Guilford County, North Carolina, Russell Chisholm stood and clicked through a PowerPoint presentation with photographs of broken streambeds and construction equipment, mud-brown water and flooding.
A ‘Rights of Nature’ Tribunal Puts the Mountain Valley Pipeline on Trial