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Gov. Baker skewed the Health Impact Assessment for the Weymouth gas compressor

September 15, 2020 By Charley on the MTA

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...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, clean-air-act, gas, massdep, natural-gas, weymouth

The Weymouth gas compressor lacks a permit. Why is it still being built?

July 15, 2020 By Charley on the MTA

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...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: clean-air-act, gas, natural-gas, weymouth

Nathan Phillips hunger strike, day 7 — please make the calls

February 4, 2020 By Charley on the MTA

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...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: climate, climate-change, enbridge, environment, environmental-justice, FRRACS, gas, gas pipelines, global-warming, Nathan Phillips, natural-gas, pipelines, weymouth, Weymouth compressor

A request for your help: Prof. Nathan Phillips goes on hunger strike for safety in Weymouth

January 29, 2020 By Charley on the MTA

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...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: massdep, Nathan Phillips, weymouth, Weymouth compressor

Weymouth compressor: MassDEP’s Chewbacca Kafka Humpty-Dumpty Up-Is-Down Catch-22

January 19, 2020 By Charley on the MTA

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...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, climate, FRRACS, gas, massdep, nocompressor, pollution, weymouth, Weymouth compressor

Health experts blast gas in NEJM

December 8, 2019 By Charley on the MTA

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...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, gas, HSPH, natural-gas, NEJM, PSR, weymouth

Weymouth gas compressor: This could blow up

December 2, 2019 By Charley on the MTA

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...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, FRACCS, gas, natural-gas, weymouth, Weymouth compressor

Cough-cough-Kafka: The #WeymouthCompressor runs out of gas?

May 23, 2019 By Charley on the MTA

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...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, FRACCS, gas, massdep, natural-gas, weymouth, Weymouth compressor

Occupy Homes to Begin Anti-Foreclosure/Anti-Eviction Actions in Mass

July 16, 2012 By danke

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: City Life Vida Urbana, CLVU, massachusetts, Occupy, Occupy Homes, Occupy Quincy, weymouth

Matt Mulvey Reception at Doyle’s TODAY

September 14, 2006 By weymouthdems

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: doyles, jamaica-plain, matt-mulvey, senate, state-senate, weymouth

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Lol. @jessamynejones blocked me. They lose their minds when a progressive blocks them yet, when you challenge their thinking, they block you. Or she blocked me because I know this is one of Daragh Murphy's accounts. #Bospoli #MaPoli

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mvalentino100 Marcus Valentino @mvalentino100 ·
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Lol. Jessamyn blocked me. They lose their minds when a progressive blocks them, yet when you challenge their thinking they block you or she blocked me because I know this is one of Daragh Murphy's accounts. #Bospoli #MaPoli

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You blocked me - @RachelMiselman, my main personal account - from your two accounts. I would say that you are the one that is upset. 🙂 #bospoli #mapoli

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