Roundup of Actions Against Fossil Fuel Infrastructure in Vermont and NY (PHOTOS)

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July 7th, 2015

from Ris­ing Tide Ver­mont

* 150+ w/dozens occu­py­ing the tracks in Ticon­dero­ga to ‪#‎StopOil­Trains‬.
* Four arrest­ed blockad­ing VT fracked gas pipeline con­struc­tion.
* TWAC still locked down to CNG truck on way to IP mill.

Disrupting Vermont Gas Systems

from Burling­ton Free Press

About 30 pro­test­ers dis­rupt­ed work at a Ver­mont Gas Sys­tems con­struc­tion site in Willis­ton on Tues­day morn­ing.

Four pro­test­ers were arrest­ed on sus­pi­cion that they unlaw­ful­ly tres­passed to stop work at the con­struc­tion site, said Willis­ton police Chief Todd Shep­ard. Willis­ton police had giv­en pro­test­ers until 7 a.m. to move.

Ver­mont State Police, Essex police and South Burling­ton police were also on scene. Shep­ard said about 14 law enforce­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tives had arrived by the end of the protest.

Thomas Buck­ley, 34, of West­ford and Martha Water­man, 25, of Char­lotte chained them­selves togeth­er across a ditch dig­ging machine. Avery Pittman, 25, of Burling­ton was lat­er also chained to Water­man.

Buck­ley, Water­man and Pittman were tak­en into cus­tody before 9 a.m. Grayson Flo­ry, 28, of Los Ange­les was also arrest­ed after refus­ing to leave the site at 310 Hur­ri­cane Lane.

All pro­test­ers arrest­ed were car­ried from the site by law enforce­ment, but they did not active­ly resist arrest oth­er­wise, Shep­ard said.

Each pro­test­er has been released from police cus­tody and issued a cita­tion to appear on Thurs­day in Ver­mont Supe­ri­or Court in Burling­ton, Shep­ard said.

Occupation of the Tracks


 

Flotilla

from Ris­ing Tide Ver­mont: More than a hun­dred peo­ple con­verged in Ticon­dero­ga, NY today for a flotil­la and sym­bol­ic block­ade to ‪#StopOil­Trains.

Yes­ter­day marked the sec­ond anniver­sary of the Lac-Megan­tic oil train dis­as­ter, in which a train car­ry­ing fracked oil explod­ed and lev­eled the small Que­bec town, killing 47 peo­ple.

In the so-called Cham­plain val­ley, tens of mil­lions of gal­lons of fracked oil are trans­port­ed annu­al­ly along the lake, and indus­try is mak­ing plans to start bring­ing tar sands through.

TWAC Throws Down

from Ris­ing Tide Ver­mont: “Our friends at the Trans and/or Women’s Action Camp (TWAC) also stopped a truck on its way to deliv­er com­pressed fracked nat­ur­al gas to Inter­na­tion­al Paper. One per­son has locked their body to the back of the truck pre­vent­ing it from mak­ing a deliv­ery. Fracked gas by truck is just as dirty and dan­ger­ous as fracked gas in a pipeline!”


 

(TWAC is a group of activists who iden­ti­fy as Trans*, Trans­gen­der, Gen­derqueer, and Gen­der non-con­form­ing as well as any­one who iden­ti­fies as a woman regard­less of whether they were assigned female at birth)

Released from Jail!!!

The four peo­ple who were arrest­ed this morn­ing block­ing the con­struc­tion of the fracked gas pipeline have all been released. Please share and donate to our legal fund to sup­port this fierce esca­la­tion of resis­tance against extreme ener­gy! Donate to our legal fund at: http://bit.ly/J7legal