FANG Shuts Down Spectra Energy after Sit-in at Senator’s Office, US

Decem­ber 17th, 2014

The New Eng­land group Fight­ing Against Nat­ur­al Gas has con­duct­ed two rous­ing actions in the last two days against green­wash­ing, frack­ing, and ener­gy infra­struc­ture.

Decem­ber 17th, 2014

The New Eng­land group Fight­ing Against Nat­ur­al Gas has con­duct­ed two rous­ing actions in the last two days against green­wash­ing, frack­ing, and ener­gy infra­struc­ture.

Here is the state­ment from FANG:

On Wednes­day morn­ing a group of New Eng­lan­ders were arrest­ed for occu­py­ing and shut­ting down the offices of Spec­tra Ener­gy to protest the company’s plans to expand a net­work of fracked gas pipelines in the region.

The group deployed mul­ti­ple ban­ners demand­ing fun­ders divest from Spec­tra Ener­gy due to the impacts of the company’s projects to local com­mu­ni­ties and the cli­mate, with one of them hang­ing from a 24 foot tri­pod and refus­ing to leave.

“As long as Spec­tra is com­mit­ted to the busi­ness of dev­as­tat­ing local health and the cli­mate, we’re com­mit­ted to dis­rupt­ing their busi­ness.”

This action took place one day after a sit-in at Sen­a­tor Shel­don Whitehouse’s office. Anoth­er state­ment:

“A group of fif­teen police offi­cers just cleared the occu­pa­tion of Sen­a­tor Shel­don Whitehouse’s office. Peter Night­en­gale a pro­fes­sor of physics at URI was arrest­ed.

Every­one – please don’t think of Sen­a­tor White­house as a “cli­mate cham­pi­on” any­more. At least until he stops sup­port­ing the Spec­tra pipeline and he stops hav­ing cli­mate activists arrest­ed.”