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Four more arrested in West Roxbury as pipeline work resumes
By adamg on Mon, 05/02/2016 - 12:11pm
Heading to E-5 for booking. Photo by Rev. Anne Bancroft.
After a winter break, Spectra Energy resumed digging up Washington Street in West Roxbury today for a high-pressure natural-gas pipeline from Westwood to a "metering and regulating" station at Grove and Centre streets.
Four protesters walked in front of the construction equipment on Washington and Stimson streets this morning and refused to move - until they were arrested.
Protesters say the pipeline and the transfer station pose an explosion risk to large number of homes along the pipeline route and that local utilities should fix all the leaks in their existing pipes before trying to bring in fracked gas from Pennsylvania.
Three protesters were arrested at the transfer station last week; more were arrested in pipeline protests last fall.
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There should be a law that if
There should be a law that if you're arrested in a protest, you should have to spend 24 hours in a cell. It might weed out hte fakers from the committed.
Are you saying these people are fakers?
I would guess that they don't want their houses exploded, and are pretty motivated.
The majority of those
The majority of those arrested so far don't even live in West Roxbury.
Exploding gas pipelines almost never happen..
...except last Friday to a Spectra pipeline in PA, which by the way wasn't routed through densely populated city neighborhoods and near an active quarry that blasts daily around noon. More here.
Fakers?
All those arrested trained for non violent civil disobedience. They were advised that time in a cell was unpredictable.
They are risking civil suit by Spectra.
Why would someone risk arrest as a faker?
Well that is one of the reasons you don't see abortion protests
Anymore.
Once judges put away people for 30 days and told them the next time would be 90 days, people stopped protesting (abortion protesters also resisted arrest which is very different that what these gas protestors are doing)
What do YOU count as "committed"?
Dear Anonymous -
Where do you come up with 24 hours to ascertain "committed"? We were there 7hours plus, in the cold (BPD air conditioning?!!) and they took away the food we had brought. At 6 hours, they gave us white rolls, and mystery meat (bologna). The men (not the women) has their metal and plastic handcuffs kept on in their cells for TWO hours!
The women were allowed to stay together and we had wonderful conversations and were allowed to learn about each other. The men were put into separate cells for most of those 7 hours.... Why?
Your standard police lockup......
usually has a 5-1 or 8-1 ratio for male/female cells, and a general holding cell for everyone else.
Terrific work
By the Detail Gang Trio.
Might
makes right? I wonder how this would play out if the pipeline was going to go through Brookline.
Brookline
Brookline?
That will never happen!
That guy looks familiar! The
That guy looks familiar! The one getting the cuffs on him. Isn't that the guy that lives in the house with all the paper drawings all over the outside of his house on Amory Street across from Porter street? He is or used to be a City Hall employee. I remember reading about him recently and all that stuff in front of his house.
Deja vu 1970s, Seabrook NH
Photo reminds me of protests of the nuclear plant in Seabrook in the 1970s when Time Magazine warned of "Global Cooling." Maybe the actor Leonardo DiCaprio can give a speech in West Roxbury and fly out on his private jet while Al Gore collects millions in "carbon credits." Meanwhile the liberals in California are posting signs "187 Trump" (187 is the California Penal Code for Murder) but media chooses to largely ignore it. Really shameless by the left.
Ah, Seabrook, good times, good times
First time I ever came up to Boston was for a Seabrook protest (at the time, my father was going out with the Village Voice's environmental reporter). We stayed at the Copley Square Hotel before the drive up to New Hampshire.
But that's been awhile, so I can understand why you maybe don't remember that the protests against Seabrook had nothing to do with climate change, and everything to do with other environmental issues and putting two reactors (the original plans) in an area that would be impossible to evacuate.
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Cancelation of Seabrook Unit 2 has added to "climate change"
The Seabrook protesters should be ashamed of canceling Unit 2. Nuclear power has proven to be some of the cleanest on Earth (see Europe). So in theory, the protesters added to global warming, even though it's not happening. No predictions have come true. The Seabrook protests were just another opportunity for hippies to gather post-Woodstock. Even after the Chernobyl accident, animal life is shown to be thriving there, better than ever. I hope your leader of the
global warming"climate change" business is no longer threatening suicide. He threatened to take his own life when they found the numbers were intentionally fudged.FISH stinks in three seconds
Benjamin Franklin famously said, "Fish and visitors stink in three days", but your absurd screechy get-off-my-lawn whines stink in three seconds, if that. You probably hate the 40 hour work week and the cessation of child labor, too. You're so stupid you fail to realize how you benefit from the actions of those whose actions you just can't shut up bellyaching about. What a flaming idiot you are.