In response to residents of the South Shore complaining about the proposed Enbridge gas compressor, in 2018 Gov. Baker threw them a bone: A Health Impact Assessment, to be finished before the permitting process in January 2019. In a weird … [Read more...]
The Weymouth gas compressor lacks a permit. Why is it still being built?
Six weeks ago, a federal court vacated the permit for the Enbridge gas compressor being built in Weymouth, on the grounds that the beleaguered and under-funded and un-minded Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection didn't follow … [Read more...]
Nathan Phillips hunger strike, day 7 — please make the calls
Why does a man have to starve himself, just to get the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to protect the public in the most basic way? When you really think about it ... you wonder how it's ever come to this. As I mentioned nearly a week ago, … [Read more...]
A request for your help: Prof. Nathan Phillips goes on hunger strike for safety in Weymouth
Friends, this is urgent, and I'd respectfully request you to take action, and then spread this around to your networks. BU professor Nathan Phillips has gone on hunger strike, in protest of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental … [Read more...]
Weymouth compressor: MassDEP’s Chewbacca Kafka Humpty-Dumpty Up-Is-Down Catch-22
Added: Nice story and interview by CBS-4 with Alice Arena of FRRACS, one of the compressor station resistance leaders: They're down to this: Physical blockades of the gas compressor construction site in Weymouth. Nine folks from … [Read more...]
Health experts blast gas in NEJM
I saw this "Perspective" piece in the New England Journal of Medicine ... and I thought I recognized one of the authors' names. Dr. Philip Landrigan is the Director of the Global Health program at Harvard's School of Public Health; but he's … [Read more...]
Weymouth gas compressor: This could blow up
With all permits in hand, construction on Enbridge's Weymouth gas compressor is set to begin tomorrow. This is the result of a rigged, heads-we-win-tails-you-lose process that has ignored near-unanimous community opposition, and the … [Read more...]
Cough-cough-Kafka: The #WeymouthCompressor runs out of gas?
The Weymouth Compressor case added a few new wild plot twists in the last fortnight. On substantive, process, and political grounds, this is a growing embarrassment for MassDEP — and for Baker himself. This case is a big deal, for a … [Read more...]
Occupy Homes to Begin Anti-Foreclosure/Anti-Eviction Actions in Mass
Read the whole story over at the Boston Occupier. This is an interesting step for Occupy, especially given (what appears to be) the group's general disintegration in Boston: [...] Inspired by actions in Minnesota and Nashville, … [Read more...]
Matt Mulvey Reception at Doyle’s TODAY
Following Matt's best fundraiser yet yesterday at Siros Marina Bay, Matt Mulvey will be the honored guest at a reception tonight in JP.BMG'ers: come down to Doyle's Cafe to meet progressive Democratic candidate for State Senate Matt Mulvey … [Read more...]