Cspan documentary competition. Middle and High School Students submitted videos answering the question what do you want the president ial candidates to address . Our second prize high school used a word goes to ava and mia , tens and 12th graders at Blacksburg High School in blacks, virginia. Their winning entry is entitled burning the bridge. Let me tell you a story. It is a story about me, community, and power. It is a story about the wonders of modern technology and consequences. This is the story of the Mountain Valley pipeline. A 303 milelong natural gas pipeline that is being installed in the Appalachian Mountains of virginia and west virginia. Late 20th century, natural gas was cheaper and more accessible because of a process called fracking. Natural gas is the number one source of Electricity Generation in the united days. Compressed natural gas can be transported through pipelines. Many leaders and politicians have dubbed natural gas as a bridge feel that would lead the nation to renewable resources. I think the boom is an important bridge fuel. The co2 emissions for gas are half that of coal. But it does not come without problems. When burned, natural gas releases methane, nitrogen oxide, Carbon Monoxide into the air and fracking can cause earthquakes. And a pipelines construction requires sacrifices from the land owners along its path. My farm was flourishing and then the pipeline came along and started moving trees around and all my fish died. Frogs bullfrog s. A lot of people had to work hard here to get what they got. And the pipeline came along and said we will give you half of what your property is worth or we will take it away from you. In 2005, the u. S. Supreme clarify that private companies, not just the government, can assert a minute domain if the project was necessary. Decides whether each height line should be a proved to use eminent domain. In the past two decades f,erc has reviewed more than 470 pipelines and they have only rejected two. It should not take 10 years to get the permits to build a road or a pipeline. We have brought that number down. Think of anything that is more highly regulated. And now, the agencies doing studies are being questioned. It is an upside down bazaar situation. In october 2017, ferc approved the pipeline. The federal Energy Regulatory commission in deciding whether the pipeline was a matter of public convenience and necessity took into consideration the fact that people who are fracking the gas had contracts to sell the gas. Those contracts was with their own subsidiaries. They were saying yes, the gas is necessary because we have buyers for it and the buyers are us. The vast majority of the natural gas in the pipeline will not fuel appalachia. Along the pipeline staff, there have been many protests to halt pipeline work. Are located on forest did slopes in montgomery county, virginia. What i would like to see accomplished is for the pipeline not to be completed or to slow it down and make it as expensive as possible. Activists have been on site and in the trees were over 500 days. Scientists and residents are concerned because of the regions caves and sinkholes and underwater flow. We have a seismic zone. And groundwater issues in one place. In this part of the route. And the potential is there to have a catastrophe. We have had catastrophes and less severe land than this. 1980 six, pipeline actions in the United States has killed 500 people and injured 4000 more. Federal courts have ruled that the Mountain Valley pipeline was approved without considering all of the environmental impacts and ferc ordered a halt on work. Many pipeline workers were without jobs when the project was on hold. Is is what they have done their whole life. This is all they know. The fact that they are sitting without working is not right what is going on. Mountain valley pipeline llc argues that the pipeline will be beneficial for the appalachian economy because it provides thousands of jobs. However, after the construction of the pipeline, it will only provide 34 jobs. We cannot continue to burn fossil fields and have a habitable planet. We have a decision to make. The idea that Renewable Energy production means fewer jobs, to me it means more years of jobs. President ial0 we believe that Energy Policy should include generous job retraining programs for fossil fuel workers as we shift towards renewables. We hope of approval for all Energy Projects will be conducted in a fair, scientific, and unbiased way that will consider the impact of each project on climate change. Todays decision about the future of energy in the united days to help determine the future of america and the world. Can watch each winning studentcam documentary online at studentcam. Org. This morning, chief political analyst for cbn news, david rhody, on the role faith and playing amide the coronavirus pandemic. Then, sojourners founder reverend jim wallis will also join us. Later, feeding america chief executive officer claire babineauxfontenot joins us to discuss food insecurity. Washington journal is next. Host on any other easter sunday, st. Peters square at the vatican would be filled with thousands of worshipers. Seen. S the lives the worldwide coronavirus pandemic has forced pope francis and religious leaders everywhere to radically change their worship practices before today, easter, passover, and the upcoming month of ramadan. Happy easter. It is april 12, 2020. We start the morning looking at what a couple of states decided to do. Some legal decisions late yesterday and ask you shoul
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