“When you look at the Berkshires compared to the rest of the state, we’re smaller, we’re older, we’re sicker, we’re poorer. We can’t keep doing things the way we’ve been doing it.”
— State Rep. William ‘Smitty’ Pignatelli, D-Lenox
“When you look at the Berkshires compared to the rest of the state, we’re smaller, we’re older, we’re sicker, we’re poorer. We can’t keep doing things the way we’ve been doing it.”
— State Rep. William ‘Smitty’ Pignatelli, D-Lenox
Following nearly four years of struggle against a powerful company (Kinder Morgan and its subsidiary, Tennessee Gas Pipeline) backed by laws and a Federal commission, it seems that now is an appropriate point to judge performances of the various participants and agencies that could have made more of a difference to avoid this calamity.