Gore daughter arrested protesting oil pipeline
Click here for reuse options!Karenna Gore was among demonstrators who tried to block construction activity on the site by lying in a trench dug for the pipeline and refusing to move until firefighters removed them, said protest group Resist the Pipeline & Stop the West Roxbury Lateral.
The group opposes the pipeline because of safety and climate change concerns.
Protesters facing trespassing and disturbing the peace charges were being arraigned Thursday.
Gore, who serves as director of the Center for Earth Ethics at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, and others facing resisting arrest charges will be arraigned Friday.
Gore said in an email that she was honored to be part of the protest ‘as they made the case that there are higher moral principles at stake here that merit nonviolent civil disobedience’.
‘The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should be helping us transition to renewable energy like solar and wind but instead they almost always defer to the fossil fuel industry,’ she wrote.
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DogsRgoodpeople July 1st, 2016 at 00:13
carry on the good name . in some parallel universe america is way better off because dumbo bush never set foot in the white house
mistlesuede July 1st, 2016 at 00:25
I’m proud of her, just like I’ve always been of her Dad.
fahvel July 2nd, 2016 at 03:38
better yet, be proud of all the anonymous protesters – they may not get the elite treatment Ms. Gore might receive.
robert July 1st, 2016 at 11:33
An interesting situation our government is in. It doesn’t look good for renewable energy, at least on the east coast