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...]
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...]