Breaking News: 124 CUMULATIVE ARRESTS in FIVE ANTI-FRACKING Pro- CLIMATE ACTIONS: A cumulative known total of at least 124 people have been arrested in recent days while carrying out nonviolent direct actions to oppose fracking infrastructure. Police arrested 47+ activists yesterday alone, in three locations. The cumulative total includes the 25 activists arrested at Seneca Lake, in New York; 15 of those arrests took place yesterday. It includes three people arrested Friday sitting in at Senator Jack Reed’s office in Rhode Island opposing the SPECTRA pipeline. It includes the 25 activists arrested yesterday, Monday November 3rd, while shutting down the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in Washington, DC. It also includes 7 arrests yesterday at Cove Point, Maryland, where direct actionists blocked construction of a FERC-approved liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on the shores of the ecologically sensitive Chesapeake Bay. Activists are showing increased determination right now, the very week the IPCC released its fifth in a series of dire warnings about climate. The IPCC report is here. Bill McKibben’s essay, “IPCC Report Says Climate Change is ‘ Severe, Widespread and Irreversible,” sums it up. FERC is a particular target because the agency bows continually to industry pressure, rubber-stamping all permits for fracking infrastructure, including pipelines and LNG export facilities, regardless of environmental and public health impacts. Climate impacts are not taken into account by FERC’s permitting process. Several actions are ongoing, with an action a day this week at FERC headquarters, and protests against the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) arising next week. Read the full (long/detailed) post here: protectingourwaters.wordpress/2014/11/04/breaking-60-cumulative-arrests-in-four-anti-fracking-pro-climate-actions/
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:51:42 +0000
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