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.

n 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.

“Some of these images are distressing,” the environmental activist told about 100 observers in the room and watching online, the atmosphere wavering between sadness and anger as he spoke.

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