{"id":3557,"date":"2018-06-22T10:30:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T14:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2018-06-22T10:30:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T14:30:39","slug":"tracy-cannon-on-the-campaign-to-defeat-the-transcanada-mountaineer-gas-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3557","title":{"rendered":"Tracy Cannon on the Campaign to Defeat the TransCanada Mountaineer Gas Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When she was a teenager, Tracy Cannon came with her dad to the Charles Town Race Track. She was attracted to the beauty of the area and decided to attend Shepherd College. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the exception of a stint in Germany, she\u2019s been in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia ever since.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qlx4AQbZRDo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the last couple of years, she\u2019s been working with Eastern Panhandle Protectors to defend the region from an assault from TransCanada and Mountaineer Gas \u2013 the two companies behind the proposed pipeline project that will bring fracked gas from Pennsylvania, under the Potomac River, through Berkeley Springs and Morgan County and into Berkeley County.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cannon says that right from the beginning, she could see that Mountaineer Gas was using predatory practices against the landowners in Morgan and Berkeley County.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe landowners felt manipulated and bullied,\u201d Cannon told Russell Mokhiber, host of <em>This Week in Morgan County.<\/em> \u201cPeople were taken advantage of. Two people were paid $500. Fifty-nine landowners received less than $4,000 to have a pipeline on their property in perpetuity \u2013 with all the risks that come with that.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cannon said that people who signed early, before the opposition to the pipeline was organized, were given far less money than those who fought the pipeline company. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople have told me that they were told &#8212; if you don\u2019t take this money now, we will take you to court, we will sue you for eminent domain, you will lose and we will take your land for nothing \u2013 which is completely false,\u201d Cannon said. \u201cThey have to give people fair compensation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cannon doubts the economic development benefits to the region &#8212; benefits being touted by the entire political leadership in the region. Not one elected official is on the record opposing the pipeline. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And she says that the risks of the pipeline cutting through residential areas &#8212; with part of the route cutting right between two neighboring houses &#8212; have been underestimated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When she was a teenager, Tracy Cannon came with her dad to the Charles Town Race Track. She was attracted to the beauty of the area and decided to attend Shepherd College. 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