Five Arrested in New York Anti-Fracking Sit-In

“Today [Sep 6] the ongo­ing protest called “Spec­tra Show­down,” [in New York City]has final­ly turned into the scene of civ­il dis­obe­di­ence that the group has been antic­i­pat­ing. At least two peo­ple have been report­ed­ly arrest­ed.

“After pre-con­struc­tion in July, Spec­tra Ener­gy begins a new phase of con­struc­tion today that has involved ship­ments of mate­ri­als on a barge on the Hud­son and from the West Side High­way. Spec­tra hard­hats were seen on peo­ple dig­ging at 8:30 this morn­ing right next to the bike path while pro­test­ers gath­ered next to them. A barge with a crane was on the Riv­er. The pro­test­ers held ban­ners but it wasn’t until after 10 AM that it was tweet­ed that two were arrest­ed.

“The protest has been against hydrofrack­ing (a process being used to drill for nat­ur­al gas in the Mar­cel­lus shale fields of Penn­syl­va­nia and the gen­er­al biore­gion).”