Ten Arrested at Seneca Lake Fathers and Grandfathers Blockade

Feb­ru­ary 7th, 2015

Nine men and one woman were arrest­ed Wednes­day morn­ing and charged with tres­pass, part of the ongo­ing protest at the Crest­wood Mid­stream facil­i­ty north of Watkins Glen.

Hous­ton-based Crest­wood wants to store up to 88 mil­lions gal­lons of liq­uid propane and butane in under­ground salt cav­erns near Seneca Lake. The com­pa­ny is await­ing state Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Con­ser­va­tion approval.

Pro­test­ers also have cit­ed the Fed­er­al Ener­gy Reg­u­la­to­ry Commission’s deci­sion to allow Crest­wood to expand nat­ur­al gas stor­age at its 576-acre prop­er­ty as a rea­son for pick­et­ing.

The group appre­hend­ed Wednes­day was par­tic­i­pat­ing in what they termed a “Fathers and Grand­fa­thers Block­ade” at the site.

About 200 peo­ple have been arrest­ed since protests began in Sep­tem­ber.

Two of those charged Wednes­day, John Den­nis ofLans­ing and Daryl Ander­son of Hec­tor, are teach­ers. Both said they were protest­ing in mem­o­ry of the deaths of their respec­tive sons two years ago.

Den­nis and Ander­son met in a local bereave­ment group and drove to the protest togeth­er.