"When Renee was killed, point-blank, I flashed back to Kent State," protestor and Great Barrington resident Eileen Lawlor told The Edge. "I think we all have to push and push and not give up and despair. We have to show up to say that this is not OK and we have to get ICE out."
The energy bill also prohibits the Department of Public Utilities from approving contracts for pipeline capacity filed by electric companies, meaning electric ratepayers cannot be charged by their energy supplier to defray the costs of natural gas pipeline expansion.
Kinder Morgan has begun to backpedal on a promise to pay the town of Sandisfield about $1 million in compensation for wear and tear or damage to roads and other town infrastructure.
“We need to look to the long term better good of society. Nobody’s going to want to have a PCB dump near them — and they should be as removed from populated areas as much as possible.”
-- Dr. David Carpenter, Director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at SUNY Albany
Cat lived a very fulfilling life, and lived every day with an uncommon joie de vivre, instilled by her parents. Travel started at an early age, as her father was sent to China for Pan American Airways in 1933.
The situation [with the Castle Street firehouse] is “ridiculous at this point. It seems crazy … If there’s a reason [why redevelopment of the firehouse hasn’t begun], then it would be nice to know what it is.”
--- Sean Stanton, chair, Great Barrington Selectboard
Castle Street firehouse owner Thomas Borshoff has no incentive to do his promised redevelopment. He is making money by doing nothing, with rent from the town from whom he purchased the property.
Sheffield filmmaker Ben Hillman made the short video about the situation, called Down the Tubes, with support from activists Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben and Lawrence Lessig.
Kinder Morgan subsidiary Tennessee Gas Pipeline has been in court since early spring to gain immediate access to clear 3.83 miles of state protected land in Otis State Forest.
After high school Robert proudly served his country during Vietnam with the United States Army. Robert also owned and ran Berkshire Crane Service from November of 1988 until 2011.
The gas company is running roughshod over Sandisfield townspeople, too, as it backs away from promises to give the town money to fix roads and bridges that may be chewed up by massive pipeline trucks.
