Mountain Valley Pipeline Claims Against Protesters Get Advanced

Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC gained victories in two cases against protesters that had allegedly blocked access to its 300-mile-long natural gas pipeline.

Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon of the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia on Monday denied the motion to dismiss from a group of protesters in one case and allowed one claim to survive in another against a single individual.

Mountain Valley Pipeline claimed in both cases that the protesters blocked pipeline work at separate times in the Jefferson National Forest. They allegedly chained themselves to construction equipment using sleeping dragon devices—where a person slips ...