Tuesday, December 19, 2017
EPA rolls back regulations on toxic effluents
The EPA will now allow toxic effluents into our waters. These can affect the IQ s of children! Do we want the next generation to be dummer?
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Panel Discussion on Climate now on Youtube
I am glad to be part of this panel on Climate Change and the importance of local involvement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTQGStQIPgE
For inspiration, watch Miramar White-Hammond at 39:39'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTQGStQIPgE
For inspiration, watch Miramar White-Hammond at 39:39'
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Keep It In The Ground
Last night I participated in A Forum on Gas Pipelines sponsored by Mothers Out Front (http://www.mothersoutfront.org) at Winthrop Cable Access Television
(http://www.wcat-tv.org).
Two of the four presenters have been arrested several times protesting the building of pipelines (Nancy Wilson and Rev. Mariama White-Hammond for lying down in the trenches at the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline). Is this the only action left for those of us protesting the expansion of fracked methane?
In Weymouth, on January 25, 2017, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted a certificate for the construction of a toxic, volatile, fracked methane gas compressor station to be built in the Fore River Basin despite the protests from the people who live there and all their legislators. Except for one: Governor Charlie Baker.
The Fore River Basin, the site of the proposed compressor station, is already an INCINERATION ZONE with seven polluting industries located dangerously close by. Explosions do happen. Especially by the Spectra/Enbridge Corporation.
The health consequences of polluting the air for the 950 families in a half mile radius was not taken into account by FERC or even our Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection when granting the permits. The Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station (www.nocompressor.com) have hired a lawyer and filed for a rehearing.
At this point, since the FERC Commission has only 2 members instead of the required 5. This lack of a legal quorum prevents them from taking action in granting us a rehearing. Instead, an illegal "tolling order" was their response. This is essentially a hold on the process for now...
Is civil disobedience the only path left?
(http://www.wcat-tv.org).
Two of the four presenters have been arrested several times protesting the building of pipelines (Nancy Wilson and Rev. Mariama White-Hammond for lying down in the trenches at the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline). Is this the only action left for those of us protesting the expansion of fracked methane?
In Weymouth, on January 25, 2017, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted a certificate for the construction of a toxic, volatile, fracked methane gas compressor station to be built in the Fore River Basin despite the protests from the people who live there and all their legislators. Except for one: Governor Charlie Baker.
The Fore River Basin, the site of the proposed compressor station, is already an INCINERATION ZONE with seven polluting industries located dangerously close by. Explosions do happen. Especially by the Spectra/Enbridge Corporation.
The health consequences of polluting the air for the 950 families in a half mile radius was not taken into account by FERC or even our Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection when granting the permits. The Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station (www.nocompressor.com) have hired a lawyer and filed for a rehearing.
At this point, since the FERC Commission has only 2 members instead of the required 5. This lack of a legal quorum prevents them from taking action in granting us a rehearing. Instead, an illegal "tolling order" was their response. This is essentially a hold on the process for now...
Is civil disobedience the only path left?
Friday, August 12, 2016
Every Wednesday from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM, I have been holding signs with other protesters at the Fore River Bridge in Weymouth that read SPECTRA NO, THEIR PROFITS, OUR CANCERS, FRACK FERC and the like. I noticed the sign that informs drivers of bridge openings and photographed it and altered the photo. It is the perfect image to symbolize the stay of one year that has been ordered by Coastal Zone Management to Spectra Energy!
Friday, June 24, 2016
A Message from the Natural World
This video was done at Zeleny Les Artist Residency in the Catskills, a beautiful place to contemplate the fragility of our environment. A retreat from the on going protest of gas infrastructure expansion in the town where I live, regionally and globally.
https://vimeo.com/170783180
https://vimeo.com/170783180
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