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One Thing...Monkton Chronicles

One Thing...

If there is one thing that I can say,

We spoke up, I spoke up, did what I can,

a small speck of a person,

fighting against a senseless pipeline.

blew my mind when looking at our town website,

and saw VT gaz posted an unsigned mou there.

what gives?

Am too tired officially to fight this.

Let me post what neighbor,

Jennifer wrote and hope

if you are so inclined,

no matter where you are in the world,

you can comment on this fracking insanity.

We say no to the pipeline in Monkton, Vermont,

Will you join us?

reprinted letter from Jennifer, dutiful servant to the rigorous fight against fracking pipelines.

The Agency of Natural Resources is holding a public hearing on the wetlands permit application for the Addison Natural Gas Project on Wed. Dec. 18, 2013 at 6 pm at Champlain Valley Union High School in Hinesburg, room 160. This is a hearing to receive public input on the impact of the pipeline on wetlands (and also natural areas, and rare, threatened or endangered species of plants or animals). Of particular interest to ANR is any information that local residents, especially landowners along the route, can provide on this topic that may have been missed by either Vermont Gas’s natural resource assessments, or by ANR’s review. In the first petition filing last December, VGS managed to miss the entire salamander crossing project, so who knows what else they might be overlooking?

ANR has already signed a Memorandum of Understanding with VGS. If you are wondering if this sequence is out of order, that is, having the hearing after signing the MOU, well, you’re not the only one. The MOU can be seen here, and can also be the subject for public comments:

http://monktonvt.com/documents/2013/12/mou-between-anr-and-vgs.pdf

The hearing notification is here:

http://www.anr.state.vt.us/dec/waterq/wetlands/docs/Determinations/2012-184_PublicNotice.pdf

The entire permit application is here (there is a lot of info):

http://www.watershedmanagement.vt.gov/cfm/notices/info.cfm?id=3231

Thanks Jennifer...

Guest Editorial

Guest Editorial,

My neighbor Jane posted on the front porch forum...
I really could not say it better myself and have to say the game of Monopoly came to mind to me as well. In the old neighborhood games went on forever, rules shifted, cheating abounded,
if you got away with it. meg.

Gas Metropoly?

Jane Palmer – Rotax Rd

Lately I feel I am living a Vermont version of the game, Monopoly. Instead of the four railroads, there are four utilities; Green Mountain Power, CVPS, VELCO, and Vermont Gas. Replacing Monopoly's two utility squares are “Green Energy” squares, where if you land, you pay a fee that is invested in alternative energy. These squares make you feel like you are doing something to help combat climate change. Actually, the money you invest goes to the utilities who sell Renewable Energy Credits to other states still burning fossil fuels. Indirectly, your fee on the “Green Energy” squares in turned to profit for the utilities. The “Free Parking” space is a “Free Hunting and Fishing” space. (about as common as free parking in Burlington or Montpelier.) The rest of the squares are much the same as in the original Monopoly game, only with more “Vermonty” names like Hardscrabble Road, Smuggler's Notch, Pleasant Valley, The McCullough Turnpike etc.

In this game, instead of playing with siblings or friends, I am being be forced to play with several large corporations that own most of the properties on the board at the start of the game. One Canadian corporation, Gaz Metro, owns all of the utilities as well as a few other key properties. (This is the equivalent of one player owning all four of the Railroads on the original game.)

On my first turn, I draw a card from the “Community Chest” that says, “Gas pipeline coming through your town, pay thousands of dollars in legal and professional fees.” Next turn I draw another one that says “Lost wages due to fighting the pipeline”. All the while, the other non-corporate players and I keep landing on the squares that Gaz Metro owns. Gaz Metro smiles as he takes our money. He tells us all not to feel bad, that it's all for the “public good” He will use our money to build new infrastructure...new infrastructure that will require all players give him more money when we land on his squares. “Not to worry,” he says...”This money will go toward investments in 'clean' energy.” The “clean” energy he is referring to however, is a fossil fuel that is extracted by extreme methods that pollute the earth.

In the “Chance” cards, there are several cards that say. “Pipeline sited across your property, collect $5” which may sound like good thing, because, after all, this is a game and you won't really have to host a pipeline, right? But then you read the fine print and it says your most valuable property would be immediately and severely devalued. (Think Park Place and Boardwalk suddenly worth less than Baltic and Mediterranean Ave.) Several cards say things like, “Path of pipeline cuts across your sugarbush, orchard, or newly planted berry bush field, you get $5, but lose all future potential income”. I draw another card that says, “Property taxes due. Pay $1000 on land you can no longer use.” And another one, “Fight with town to lower property taxes on easement-encumbered land. You lose. Pay $100.”

There are also cards that say things like “Take a hike up Snake Mountain, enjoy the view” or “On a clear night, stare at the stars” and “Go fishing on Lake Champlain” But no money comes with those cards. You still only get the $200 for passing go and the rents on the measly properties you have left. It's not enough to live on. I watch as my cash dwindles....I draw another card from the Community Chest and it says, “The Public Service Board grants Certificate of Public Good to owner of utilities.” This is the ultimate death card to any player that does not own all the utilities but to Gaz Metro it means that it can grab any property that it desires by using eminent domain. Our government will even assist in the condemnation. Give up your hopes of hanging on to the land you need or value. Say goodbye to the prospect of curtailing climate change. The future is grim.

If this were really a game, it would suck and no normal person would want to play it. But what I describe is pretty close to what we are experiencing. The players are not who we want to play with (in fact, we never agreed to play this game in the first place) and the rules are stacked against us. The outcome is obvious from the start and the only way you could possibly win is if you draw a “You buy a Tri-States Megabucks card and it's a winner, collect $2 million” card which I am not even sure really exists.

It is disheartening that the proponents of this gas pipeline keep touting the economical benefits of “natural” gas while they blame the lack of pipeline infrastructure in our state for our economic woes. We see the potential of economic benefits of a gas pipeline alright...to the owner of the utilities and to big businesses that consume huge amounts of thermal energy. To the rest of us...the costs are already adding up.

One has to wonder how things got this bad. Why would our government allow one foreign company to be so heavily invested in the lion's share of our state's utilities? Why would our governor claim to be supporting a switch to renewable and independent energy sources but at the same time, back a plan that will hook us up to a fracked gas pipeline for the next 100 years? Why is a company that has no respect for agriculture and landowners, being allowed to plot and plan a design to crisscross a state renowned for it's beauty and landscapes, with pipelines carrying a lethal gas that has been extracted by extreme methods, rendering the areas it comes from poisoned and ravaged? One has to wonder, who designed this game, anyhow?

There is a groundswell of opposition growing against this pipeline. Those that have not been paying attention are starting to tune in and raise their voices against a fracked gas pipeline project that seems to be progressing along in spite of the outcries of dissent. If those outcries are ignored, they will get louder. Vermonters have a right to protect our land, our health and our economy. We have a right to refuse to take part in the desecration of our planet. We have a right to say “NO” to the Addison “Natural” Gas Project.

A+, Jane :)

gas pipeline antholgy of articles the last go around...history repeats...

INDEX OF ARTICLES ABOUT THE GOVERNOR HOWARD "DEAN-ENDORSED BENNINGTON-RUTLAND NATURAL GAS PIPELINE" AND POWER PLANT PROJECT
From the Rutland Herald, Bennington Banner and Burlington Free Press

More cartoons about the gas project

GAS LINE IS PLANNED FOR SOUTHWESTERN VT. Two major gas utilities announced plans to bring natural gas into Vermont and to build new electric power plants near Bennington and Rutland.
RHD, Sep 4 1998, A1:1

Firms pitch natural gas pipeline in southern Vermont, includes plan to build power plants.
BFP, Sep 5 1998, 3B:1

TOWN: GAS LINE 'HUGE'. Bennington officials say a proposed natural gas pipeline that would run from Pownal to Rutland and eventually to Middlebury has the potential to spur the growth of existing industries and attract new ones to town.
RHD, Sep 5 1998, 14:5

Rutland mayor Jeffrey Wennberg takes part-time consulting job with company working on plan to run natural gas pipeline from Pownal to Rutland.
BFP, Sep 5 1998, 8B:3

PIPELINE SHOWS LEGISLATURE CAN'T AVOID THE FUTURE. Jack Hoffman, Chief of the Vermont Press Bureau, comments on new energy possibilities, including a proposed natural gas pipeline.
RHD, Sep 6 1998, C1:1 photo,

ANOTHER GAS LINE WEIGHED. The Niagara-Mohawk Power Co. is weighing plans to bring natural gas to Bennington with an eye to serving industrial, commercial and residential customers around town.
RHD, Sep 10, 1998

GAS PIPELINE FIRM PLANS FOR PLANT IN CITY: RUTLAND AND BENNINGTON WOULD BE KEY LINKS. Officials proposing a natural gas pipeline from Rutland to Pownal say they plan to build large electricity-producing plants in Rutland and Bennington.
RHD, Sep 15 1998, 1:1

WENNBERG MOONLIGHTS IN CONSULTANT'S ROLE. Rutland Mayor Jeffrey Wennberg takes a job as a part-time consultant with Energy East Corp., the company that will, in part, run a natural gas pipeline from Pownal to Rutland.
RHD, Sep 15 1998, 1:5 photo,

GAS PIPELINE COULD GIVE LOCAL INDUSTRY A BOOST. Plans for a natural gas pipeline extending from Pownal to Rutland and an electric power generator here could be a boon to propel economic development in the area through recruiting and expanding industres.
Bennington Banner, Sep. 15, 1998

Vermont Energy Park Holdings plans to build power plants in Rutland and Bennington, would depend on natural gas pipeline construction and produce more power than Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power facility.
BFP, Sep 16 1998, 5A:2

IT'S A NATURAL. Comment on the proposed natural gas pipeline and power plants for southwestern Vermont.
RHD, Sep 16 1998, 10:1 ed. page,

BUSINESS INTERESTS SEE BENEFITS TO GAS PIPELINE. Proponents of a proposed gas pipeline say it has the potential to give the region a needed economic jolt, making Rutland and Bennington counties a more competitive place to do business.
RHD, Sep 18 1998, A1:2

Make a choice. Rutland mayor Jeffrey Wennberg should not be moonlighting as consultant to Energy East Corp., natural gas pipeline partner, presents conflict of interest situation.
BFP, Sep 19 1998, 4A:1 ed.page,

IROQUOIS RECORD SPARKS CONCERN. The head of the Vermont Natural Resources Council says her organization will take close look at the plans of Iroquois Pipeline Operating Company to build a natural gas pipeline from Bennington to Rutland.
RHD, Sep 19 1998, A1:1

Pipeline company paid $22 million in fines for environmental violation in New York state project. Iroquois Pipeline Operating Co. of Connecticut, same firm that wants to build natural gas pipeline in Bennington, southwetern Vermont.area.
BFP, Sep 19 1998, 4B:2

POWER PLANTS PROPOSED FOR RUTLAND, BENNINGTON. Rutland and Bennington could become high-power communities if a proposed natural gas pipeline comes to Vermont.
RHD, Sep 20 1998, D3:5

DUAL ROLES. Comment on Rutland City Mayor Jeff Wennberg and his involvement with Energy East Corp., the company that wants to build a natural gas pipeline in southwestern Vermont.
RHD, Sep 23 1998, 10:1 ed. page,

PIPELINE PLAN DRAWS FEW QUESTIONS. Gas pipeline representatives invited Rutland Town officials to ask question about their proposal.
RHD, Sep 29 1998, A11:2

GAS PLANT-DOWNTOWN ROAD IS CONSIDERED. A proposed gas plant in Rutland City sparks interest in a new road that could serve that facility, reduce Route 7 congestion and encourage industrial growth.
RHD, Oct 1 1998, 1:4 photo,

WHOSE CHOICE? Editorial. Manchester Journal. Oct 2, 1998

PIPELINE PROPOSED. Area residents may soon be presented with a tantible plan to bring natural gas into the area, with construction beginning as soon as 2001.
Manchester Journal. Oct. 2, 1998

LETTER TO EDITOR. Economic Growth has High Cost. Oct 8, 1998

TOWN FEARS GAS PLANT MAY BLOCK WATER SOURCE. Rutland Town officials are concerned that a "mammoth" gas plant proposed for their town and Rutland City may plug a well that could provide the long-awaited source of water for their community.
RHD, Oct 9, 1998

PSB RULES NATURAL GAS VT. MARKET WIDE OPEN. State utility regulators removes the first hurdle to the possible development of a natural gas pipeline in southwestern Vermont.
RHD, Oct 10 1998, 11:4

TOWN LEADERS HEAR OVERVIEW OF GAS PIPELINE.Representatives of Southern Vermont National Gas Corp. meet with local Select Boards to provide an overview of the 65-mile pipeline that would run from Pownal to Rutland.
RHD, Nov 7 1998, 1:3

GAS PLANT GETS BENNINGTON NOD. The Select Board gives its unanimous support to a proposed natural gas pipeline and electric generating plant this week but only after raising questions about the project's safety and aesthetics.
RHD, Nov 12 1998, 1:4

COMMISSIONER VOWS SUPPORT FOR PIPELINE PROJECT. "A terrific opportunity," Sedano says. Richard Sedano, commissioner of the Public Service Department, avowed his support for the natural gas pipeline project proposed for southwestern Vermont.
Bennington Banner, November 20, 1998

LETTER TO EDITOR. Solar is Better Than Gas Pipeline. Dec. 15, 1998

PIPELINE PROJECT PROCEEDS APACE. A group proposing to build a natural gas pipeline through southern Vermont says the project remains on schedule.
RHD, Jan 11, 1999

LETTER TO EDITOR. Natural Gas Drawbacks. Jan 18, 1999

TOWN RESIDENTS VOICE CONCERNS OVER GAS PLANT. A few Rutland Town residents meets with the Select Board to voice their concerns about a huge gas plant that is proposed to be built in the town.
RHD, Mar 4 1999, 13:5

PIPELINE PLANS NEARLY COMPLETED. Developers hope to submit final gas line plans within two months.
RHD, Mar 8 1999, 1C:2 map,

Plans move ahead for natural gas pipeline by Southern Vermont Natural Gas, permit application for Bennington to Rutland pipeline expected to be filed soon.
BFP, Mar 18 1999, 6B:1

LETTER TO EDITOR. Dispelling Myths of Natural Gas. March 26, 1999

LETTER TO EDITOR. Pipeline Companies Prone to Lying. April 7, 1999

WOMAN BATTLING 65-MILE PIPELINE. Opposing resolutions are circulating in towns that would be affected by a proposed natural gas pipeline in central and southern Vermont.
RHD, Apr 8 1999, 15:6

Danby woman contests proposed natural gas pipeline by Southern Vermont Natural Gas.
BFP, Apr 9 1999, 3B:1

GAS PLANT DETAILS START TO EMERGE. After six months of hiatus, Rutland Town officials hear more details about a proposed gas plant that would exceed four football fields.
RHD, Apr 13 1999, 11:6

Power plant criticized. Vermont Energy Park Holdings shows site plan to selectboard in Rutland Town. Neighborhood opposition surfaces to prposed $250 million facility.
BFP, Apr 14 1999, 6A:2

LARGE RUTLAND GAS PLANT HAS NEIGHBORS WORRIED. Executives promoting a gas-fired power plant proposed for Rutland Town are thinking big.
RHD, Apr 18 1999, 3D:5

DORSET BOARD OPPOSES GAS PIPELINE. Citing environmental, safety and property concerns, the Dorset Select Board goes on record against a natural gas pipeline that would run along the Route 7 corridor.
RHD, Apr 23 1999, 12:1

DORSET BOARD SAYS "NO GAS" Manchester Journal. April 23, 1999

Dorset selectboard against NY-Vt. natural gas pipeline project, says generating plants could have negative impact on town.
BFP, Apr 24 1999, 4B:1

NEW GAS ROUTE WOULD CROSS 200 PROPERTIES. Southern Vermont Natural Gas plans to propose a route for its 65-mile pipeline that would mean the pipe will need to be buried along some 200 private properties in Bennington and Rutland counties.
Bennington Banner, April 28, 1999

FARMER FIGHTS PIPELINE, WINS SUPPORT. Annette Smith was interrupted several times by spontaneous applause. People shook her hand and gave her crumpled-up dollars to help her cause.
Bennington Banner, April 28, 1999

LATEST PIPELINE PLAN IS NO EASY SELL. Editorial. Bennington Banner. April 29, 1999

Gas pipeline would affect 200 properties in Bennington and Rutland counties.
BFP, Apr 30 1999, 5B:3

CITY NOT BURNING TO FIGHT GAS PLANT. City leaders give a cool reaction to a letter from the Dorset Select Board opposing a large natural gas plant planned for Rutland.
RHD, May 4 1999, 11:6

SHAFTSBURY SELECT BOARD: PIPELINE! YES! In a unanimous vote, the Select Board agreed to sign a resolution supporting the proposed gas pipeline.
Bennington Banner. May 4, 1999

VERMONT ENERGY SEEKING A THIRD GAS PLANT IN NY. A group that wants to build one of the largest gas plants in the nation in Rutland and a smaller one in Bennington is now looking to construct another plant in New York.
RHD. May 8 1999

GAS PIPELINE OFFICIALS WITHDRAW REQUEST. Executives of the companies that are hoping to bring a natural gas pipeline into southern Vermont have withdrawn a request they made to planning commissions in the county that has become what one company official called a "PR nightmare."
Bennington Banner. May 8-9, 1999

GAS LINE HEARING TO BE SET IN DANBY. A group of local citizens that are opposed to a proposed gas pipeline running through Danby will soon find out whether the town will support or reject the project.
RHD, May 11 1999, 11:6

Danby to take stance on pipeline, public hearing scheduled on NY-Vt. natural gas pipeline project.
BFP, May 12 1999, 3B:2

PUBLIC, STAY HOME: BOARDS ASKED TO ATTEND GAS MEETING. SVNG wants town officials to attend a private meeting-- but doesn't want the public included.
Bennington Banner. May 13, 1999

PIPELINE FOE CALLS FOR ADVOCATE TO FIGHT 'SALES JOB'. An opponent of the natural gas pipeline project wants the state to hire an independent public advocate to look out for Vermonters' rights.
Bennington Banner. May 13, 1999

VERMONT HAS ENOUGH HOOPS TO JUMP THROUGH. Annette Smith is a one-woman wrecking crew who has made it her mission to derail a proposed gas pipeline project for southwest Vermont. Editorial.
Bennington Banner. May 14, 1999

LEARN ABOUT THE GAS PROJECT FIRST. Commentary. Bennington Banner. May 15-16, 1999

BOARD HEAD PROMISES NO CONFLICT OVER PROPOSED GAS PIPELINE. Representative James Colvin denied allegations that his status as vice-president of a nonprofit corporation creates a conflict of interest for his wife Select Board Chair Lodie Colvin.
Bennington Banner. May 20, 1999

GAS PROJECT PART OF BIGGER PICTURE. Commentary by Richard Sedano. Bennington Banner. May 21, 1999

PIPELINE PLAN STIRS SEEDS OF DISCONTENT IN SOUTH. Southern Vermont Natural Gas starts groundwork on pipeline from Benington to Rutland.
RHD, May 23 1999, Sec A 3:1

NY-Vt. natural gas pipeline project foes form opposition group. Organizer has a "desire to keep Vermont clean and our environment unpolluted."
BFP, May 23 1999, 3B:1

GAS PIPELINE PROTEST MAY AFFECT PLANT. A mounting grass-roots effort in southern Vermont to stop the installation of a 65-mile-long natural gas pipeline to several proposed electric generating facilities could also affect plans to build a $400 million electric generating plant off Route 5.
Albany Times Union. May 24, 1999

VERMONTERS FOR A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT VOWS TO FIGHT GAS PIPELINE PROJECT. The utility companies behind a plan to bring natural gas to southern Vermont are using underhanded tactics to mislead Vermonters, the leader of a new organization opposing the project said Wednesday.
Bennington Banner. May 27, 1999

PIPELINE ENEMY CREATES GROUP. A subsistence farmer from Danby who has waged a one-woman campaign against proposed natural gas pipeline calls on Vermonters to join her in defeating the project.
RHD, May 27 1999, 18:2

LOOMING THREAT. Editorial. Manchester Journal. May 28, 1999

GAS PROJECT RUSH JOB PORTENDS PROBLEMS WITH PIPELINE PROPOSAL. Commentary by Annette Smith. Manchester Journal. May 28, 1999

Danby woman campaigns against NY-Vt. natural gas pipeline, two town selectboards join opposition.
BFP, May 30 1999, 3B:1

STATE REGULATORS VOW UNITY ON PIPELINE. State regulators offer assurances that they are working together to forecast the effects and minimize any harm from a proposed natural gas pipeline.
RHD, Jun 2 1999, 16:2

STATE: NATURAL GAS IS BETTER. Despite significant environmental impacts, the state Department of Public Service has endorsed the creation of natural gas-fired power plants in Vermont.
RHD, Jun 3 1999, 19:3

Residents of southern Vermont hear details on proposed NY-Vt. natural gas pipeline.
BFP, Jun 3 1999, 3B:1

DEAN: 'PUT UP OR SHUT UP' ON PIPELINE, RT. 7. Gov. Howard Dean says business leaders must back the natural gas pipeline and Route 7 improvements if they want to create good new jobs in southwestern Vermont.
Bennington Banner. June 4, 1999

INDUSTRIAL LEADERS BACK GAS PIPELINE. The natural gas pipeline would give manufacturers a significant savings in energy costs, two major employers said Thursday.
Bennington Banner. June 4, 1999

Public Service Department endorses gas power plants proposed for Rutland and Bennington areas, to be supplied by NY-Vt. natural gas pipeline.
BFP, Jun 4 1999, 3B:1

SEDANO: STATE'S PIPELINE DECISION MUST BE BALANCED. Although the state is sympathetic to the concerns of landowners whose property would be disturbed by a proposed natural gas pipeline, it must take a "long view" when deciding whether to approve the project, according to Public Service Commissioner Richard Sedano.
RHD. June 5, 1999

Governor Dean calls on business to back proposed NY-Vt. natural gas pipeline, "reads riot act" to opponents, saying it is critical to more and better jobs.
BFP, Jun 5 1999, 5B:2

Go a little easier on us, Governor, Bennington Banner, June 7, 1999

We are taking measures to improve business in southwestern Vermont, Letter to the editor, Bennington Banner, June 10, 1999

Truth, gas and hot air -- how to stop the natural gas pipeline, June 11, 1999

ARLINGTON WON'T ENDORSE PIPELINE. The select Board of Arlington town refuses to support a natural gas pipeline that would run through the city.
RHD, Jun 16 1999, 16:1

Local Leaders: Dean forcing plans on area, Bennington Banner, June 16, 1999

Dean Slams Critics, Vermont Press Bureau, June 17, 1999

Governor Dean eases rhetoric on pipeline and road plans for Bennington, Rutland, southwest area.
BFP, Jun 17 1999, 1B:7

Dorset selectboard wants residents' blessing in fight against proposed NY-Vt. natural gas pipeline.
BFP, Jun 20 1999, 6B:3

GAS PIPELINE GETS COOL RECEPTION IN ARLINGTON. Proposed southern Vermont natural gas pipeline's route to have possibilites to bypass Arlington causes apprehension among town's select board.
RHD, Jun 20 1999, Sec D 3:5

COUNSEL ENLISTED TO FIGHT PIPELINE. Unable to obtain information about proposed natural gas pipeline, the Select Board in Dorset ask for and win taxpayer approval to hire a consultant to represent it in the state permitting process.
RHD, Jun 23 1999, 16:3

PIPELINE SERVES NO PUBLIC GOOD. Member of Bennington County Regional Commission questions proposed pipeline of Southern Vermont Natural Gas and proposed power plants of Energy Park Holdings.
RHD, Jun 24 1999, 14:4 ed.page,

Dorset to hire consultant to plan pipeline strategy, will help decide whether to fight proposed NY-Vt. natural gas pipeline.
BFP, Jun 24 1999, 3B:1

GAS PIPELINE PROJECT MERITS DISCUSSION. Vermonter voices his opinion on the controversial issue of new gas plants and pipelines in Southern Vermont.
RHD, Jun 27 1999, Sec C 3:1 ed.page ; photo,

DORSET NEIGHBORS BACK FARM FAMILY. Proposed gas pipeline to go through family farm angers neighbors and forces them to authorize Select Board to hire consultant to oppose the project.
RHD, Jun 28 1999, 1:4 photo,

BENNINGTON BUSINESS GROUP ENDORSES GAS PIPELINE. Bennington County Industrial Corp endorses a proposed natural gas pipeline.
RHD, Jul 2 1999, 14:2

TINMOUTH TO BATTLE 63-MILE GAS LINE. Tinmouth Planning Commission votes to oppose natural gas pipeline.
RHD, Jul 2 1999, 11:2

ERRORS AND MISSTATEMENTS ABOUT PIPELINE. Commentary regrading proposed natural gas project for southwestern Vermont.
RHD, Jul 2 1999, 8:4 ed.page,

DANBY WEIGHS PIPELINE:VOTERS TO DECIDE TOWN'S POSITION. Voters to decide town's official position on a 63-mile natural gas pipeline proposed for southwestern Vermont.
RHD, Jul 5 1999, 9:4

Danby residents to vote on NY-Vt. natural gas pipeline, 63-mile line would run through town.
BFP, Jul 6 1999, 3B:3

GAS PIPELINE PROJECT A HUGE MISTAKE. Resident discusses the disadvantages of the proposed Gas pipeline project.
RHD, Jul 11 1999, Sec C 3:1 ed.page,

PROJECT INVESTORS SOUGHT. Natural Gas and pipeline project seeks investors.
RHD, Jul 28 1999, 1:5

Gas pipeline opponents in Danby post their land, officials with NY-Vt. natural gas pipeline company say tactic won't stop project.
BFP, Jul 29 1999, 4B:1

RUTLAND IN DARK ON GAS PLANT PLANS: Member of the Rutland City Board of Aldermen questions planning of proposed electric generating plants and natural gas pipelines in Southern Vermont.
RHD, Aug 4 1999, 11:1 editorial,

CITY FORMS COMMITTEE TO REVIEW GAS PROJECT. Rutland City to review plan to build gas plant.
RHD, Aug 10 1999, 13:4

PIPELINE REVIEW COSTS EYED: State auditor investigates proposal aimed at having natural gas pipeline proponents cover state review charges into project.
RHD, Aug 13 1999, 1:5

State Auditor questions Natural Resource Agency's role in review of Bennington-to-Rutland natural gas pipeline.
BFP, Aug 13 1999, 3B:1

Gas plant in Rutland would use sewage effluent for cooling, says spokesperson for Vermont Energy Park Holdings.
BFP, Aug 15 1999, 3B:1

NO SHORT CUTS: Editorial examines controversy behind Dean-endorsed Bennington-Rutland natural gas pipeline.
RHD, Aug 19 1999, 8:1 editorial,

The Governor's gas pipeline, Manchester Journal commentary, August 20, 1999

CITY SEEKS PLANT INPUT: Rutland City officials want more say in permitting process for gas-fired generating plant.
RHD, Aug 21 1999, 11:5

GAS PLANT FOES GAIN NOTED ALLY: Former television producer and political activist Norman Lear joins group opposing construction of southwestern Vermont gas plant and pipeline.
RHD, Aug 25 1999, 1:3 photo,

Television producer Norman Lear joins fight over Bennington-to-Rutland natural gas pipeline.
BFP, Aug 27 1999, 3B:1

LEAR EXPLAINS ROLE IN GAS PLANT FIGHT: Television producer and political activist explains oppostion to proposed gas pipeline.
RHD, Aug 27 1999, 12:3

GAS PLANT VOTE SPURS SKEPTICISM. Danby residents will vote on a $1 billion proposal to build a natural gas pipeline and two power plants in southwestern Vermont.
RHD, Sep 2 1999, 1:1

Gas pipeline opponent urges Danby against referendum, woman says plan of Energy Park Holdings not well understood by residents.
BFP, Sep 3 1999, 5B:1

GAS-FIRED OPPOSITION. Partners Robert Votaw and former state Sen. Thomas Macaulay, R-Rutland, have been trying to line up several hundred million dollars in financing to pipe natural gas into Vermont's southwest corner to fuel a gas-fired power station in Bennington and another one in Rutland.
RHD, Sep 5 1999, C1:2 photo,

Natural gas pipeline offers promise to some, heartbreak to others. Sam and Faye Hepburn of Tinmouth could lose deal to sell spring water to Vermont Pure.
BFP, Sep 5 1999, 1B:2 photo,

PIPELINE VOTE SET IN DANBY. The Danby Select Board decided to proceed with plans to ask voters whether Danby should support the construction of a proposed natural gas pipeline through town despite pleas from a project opponent that the vote is premature.
RHD, Sep 8 1999, 13:2

DANBY DEBATES PIPELINE. Danby citizens questioned the merits of Southern Vermont Natural Gas's plans to build a 65-mile pipeline from Bennington to Rutland, which would be anchored by two gas-powered electric generating plants proposed by Vermont energy Park Holdings Co.
RHD, Sep 15 1999, B1:6

PIPELINE OPPOSED IN DANBY. Danby residents strongly opposed a proposed natural gas pipeline through their town in anon-binding referendum.
RHD, Sep 16 1999, A1:5

CROWD IS SKEPTICAL ABOUT GAS PIPELINE, PLANT. Proponents of a natural gas pipeline and power plant faced a deeply skeptical crowd at a public forum in Bennington.
RHD, Sep 17 1999, A11:2

Danby residents vote against gas pipeline proposal.
BFP, Sep 17 1999, 3B:1

Bennington residents criticize pipeline at forum. Health and safety concerns over proposal by Vermont Energy Park Holdings to build power plants in Rutland and Bennington.
BFP, Sep 18 1999, 4B:5

BENNINGTON MULLS GAS PLANT VOTE. Select Board members are considering calling for a non-binding referendum to help them stake out a position on a controversial natural gas project.
RHD, Sep 19 1999, A3:3

TINMOUTH VOTES 85-0 AGAINST GAS PIPELINE. Second Rutland County vote against proposed natural gas project.
RHD, Sep 23 1999, 11:2

DEAN:PIPELINE DETAILS NEEDED. Gov. Howard Dean reiterated his support for controversial natural gas project.
RHD, Sep 25 1999, 14:5 photo,

PIPELINE MEETING SET IN CLARENDON. The Select Board sets a tentative date for an informational meeting on a Southern Vermont Natural Gas plan to run a 65-mile pipline from Bennington to Rutland.
RHD, Oct 1 1999, 11:1

PIPELINE MOTION DEMANDS DETAILS. The Sunderland Select Board joins the rank of those opposed to a natural gas pipeline that would run from Bennington to Rutland.
RHD, Oct 11 1999, 12:3

AUDITOR"S GAS PLAN REVIEW ON HOLD. State Auditor Edward Flanagan puts a hold on his investigation into whether or not the Agency of Natural Resources should allow the Iroquois Pipeline System to build sixty-three-mile natural gas pipeline into Vermont.
RHD, Oct 12 1999, 11:5

NATURAL GAS PIPELINE PLAN 'ON HOLD.' A lack of financing has either delayed or killed the plan to build a natural gas pipeline and two electric generating plants.
RHD, Oct 22 1999, A1:1 sketch,

Power developer withdraws application. Electric generating plant and gas pipeline in southwestern Vermont is put on hold by Vt. Energy Park Holdings.
BFP, Oct 23 1999, 6C:5

MORE SNAGS FOR GAS PLAN. Southern Vermont Natural Gas says that unless its partner in the $1 billion project of bringing natural gas to southern Vermont obtains financing for two proposed gas electric generating plants, the company will be forced to re-examine its role in the project.
RHD, Oct 26 1999, 1:3

VPIRG: GAS PROJECT WILL POLLUTE, NOT CUT RATES. The Vermont Public Interest Research Group says that massive gas pipeline and two power plants proposed for southwestern Vermont will increase air pollution and not reduce electric bills.
RHD, Oct 28 1999, 11:2

NO SUPPORT VOICED IN CLARENDON FOR GAS PROPOSAL. Several area residents expressed concerns that the natural gas project proposed for south-western Vermont would pollute, affect water resources, and reduce property values.
RHD, Oct 29 1999, 11:2

Vt. Public Interest Research Group study: Proposed gas pipeline and power plants in southwestern Vermont would add to pollution.
BFP, Oct 29 1999, 3B:1

Pipeline opposition surfaces in Clarendon, Vermont Energy Park Holdings company says project is victim of misinformation.
BFP, Oct 31 1999, 3B:1

Dean: Decent jobs require decent roads -- Rutland Herald, Nov. 2, 1999

COUNTERING PLAGUE OF MISINFORMATION (Commentary: Thomas Macaulay): Tom Macaulay, partner in Vermont Energy Park Holdings tries to counter misinformation about proposed construction of power plants in Bennignton and Rutland.
RHD, Nov 4 1999, 9;3 ed. page,

DANBY OFFICIALLY OPPOSES GAS LINE: Town officials have gone on record opposing the construction of a natural gas pipeline through Danby.
RHD, Nov 10 1999, 15:6

CLARENDON BOARD JOINS OPPOSITION TO GAS LINE. The Clarendon Select Board votes against allowing the Southern Vermont Natural Gas company to construct a 63-mile pipeline that would run through Clarendon.
RHD, Nov 13 1999, 11:2

Future's so bright: Vermonters' predictions upbeat -- Rutland Herald, Jan. 1, 2000

Web photo of Vermont doesn't tell real story. Criticism of Gov. Howard Dean for position on proposed natural gas pipeline. (Monday Morning, Annette Smith, exec. dir. of Vermonters for a Clean Environment, Danby). BFP, Jan 10 2000, 7A:3 ed.page,

Sunderland to vote on gas pipeline project -- Rutland Herald, Jan. 16, 2000

'Dormant' gas project alive but again pushed back -- Rutland Herald, Feb. 12, 2000

Southwest gas pipeline project alive, opponents might file suit to stop it.
BFP, Feb 13 2000, 6B:1

State's pollution plans questioned, proposed southwest Vt. gas pipeline power plants anger some.
BFP, Feb 14 2000, 1A:1

Dirtier air? Vt. cannot expect to win a lawsuit against polluters in other states if it allows more pollution here.
BFP, Feb 20 2000, 4E:1

CONTROVERSIAL PIPELINE MAY STILL BE IN THE WORKS. Vermont Energy Park Holdings expects to find financing for the proposed $1 billion pipeline that the company wants to build in southwestern Vermont.
RHD, Feb 20 2000, D3:5

Vermonters beware, the state is ruining our environment. Criticism of Dean Administration for support of gas pipeline power plants in southwest Vt. (It's My Turn, Annette Smith, exec. dir., Vermonters for a Clean Environment).
BFP, Feb 29 2000, 9A:1 ed.page,

Manchester voters approve new roundabout plan -- Rutland Herald, Mar 5, 2000

Pipeline route is dead, Dean says -- Rutland Herald, Mar 7, 2000

Gov. Dean says plans are dead for natural gas pipeline along Bennington-Rutland Route 7 corridor.
BFP, Mar 8 2000, 3B:5

Gas pipeline supporters say Route 7 path still alive -- Rutland Herald, March 11, 2000

Pipeline pipedreams. Vermonters should not be too quick to celebrate the demise of a natural gas pipeline project along U. S. Route 7.
BFP, Mar 12 2000, 4E:1 ed.page,

Developers not giving up on pipeline, Governor Dean withdrew support for natural gas project along U. S. Route 7.
BFP, Mar 12 2000, 3B:1

VPIRG STANDS BY ITS FINDINGS ON GAS PROJECT: Vermont Public Interest Research Group affirms findings that power plants, gas pipeline should not be built for southwestern Vermont.
RHD, Mar 17 2000, 11:5

RESIDENTS WOULD HAVE GREATER VOICE: Bennington, Rutland senators band together to give constituents greater say in SW state pipeline proposal.
RHD, Mar 17 2000, 11:5

Manchester officials reluctant to come out against pipeline -- Rutland Herald, Mar. 19, 2000

Dean and Pollina pitch 'green' records -- Rutland Herald, Mar 19, 2000

Vt. seeks emissions waiver, Agency of Natural Resources proposes alternatives for dealing with nitrogen oxides.
BFP, Mar 24 2000, 1B:6

Don't compromise Vermont's clean air. Instead of sidestepping air pollution standards, Vermont needs to do more to foster clean air.
BFP, Mar 28 2000, 8A:1 ed.page,

Emissions request on hold. State sought leeway on Clean Air Act.
BFP, Mar 30 2000, 1A:1

Environmental group claims knowledge of new pipeline plan -- Rutland Herald, April 7, 2000

It's not dead yet: Pipeline backers push toward goal -- Bennington Banner, April 20, 2000

Natural gas pipeline proposal by Southern Vermont Natural Gas remains alive.
BFP, Apr 21 2000, 3B:4

Apr 21: Plan to change Jard site zoning opposed -- Bennington Banner

Gas plant evolution unnerves residents -- Bennington Banner, April 21, 2000

Dean mellows over development conflict. Tells Manchester group that opposition to natural gas pipeline not necessarily anti-business sentiment.
BFP, May 19 2000, 3B:3

Environmental group, Conservation Law Foundation, has interests called into question by opponents of southwest Vt. natural gas pipeline. (Sam Hemingway)
BFP, May 28 2000, 1B:1

Pipeline plan faces scrutiny. Power plants proposed for Bennington and Rutland must fit into New England electric power grid.
BFP, May 29 2000, 3B:1

PIPELINE WOULD FACE WIDE REVIEW PROCESS. The proposed natural gas pipeline and power plant for Bennington and Rutland would have to fit into the New England-wide electrical generating system to gain approval.
RHD, May 30 2000, B4:1

Jard zoning left alone -- Bennington Banner, June 13, 2000

Bennington deals pipeline a blow -- Rutland Herald, June 16, 2000

Is This Democracy? The Northern Forest Forum, Summer 2002

Gov. Dean fields questions, comments from CAT-TV viewers -- Bennington Banner, August 2, 2000

50/50 CHANCE FOR GAS POWER PLANT HERE, Bennington Banner, Sep 12, 2000.

DEAN TO POWER PLANT BACKERS: 'GO AWAY,' BB, Sep 13, 2000

PIPING UP. Gov. Howard Dean vowed to do everything in his power to prevent New York State Electric and Gas from building a natural gas power plant and pipeline in southwestern Vermont.
RHD, Sep 14 2000, B4:2

Dean rails against pipeline proposal for southwest Vermont.
BFP, Sep 14 2000, 7B:1

VERMONT FIGHT MAY BOLSTER PLANT FOES - Albany Times-Union, September 14, 2000.

DEAN DENOUNCES POWER PLANT PLAN. Gov. Howard Dean left little doubt that he opposes a proposed natural gas power plant and pipeline in southwestern Vermont.
RHD, Sep 17 2000, D3:5

POLLUTION WAIVER PLANS PUT ON HOLD. The state has dropped plans to ask permission from the federal government to exceed limits on the amount of nitrous oxide, a pollutant, emitted by Vermont industries.
RHD, Sep 21 2000, B2:1

State won't seek waiver from federal rules on nitrous oxide emitted by Vermont industries.
BFP, Sep 22 2000, 5B:1

Monkton Chronicles

Farmers against gaz pipeline...
Our neighbors Jane and Nate.

http://vtdigger.org/2013/10/07/palmer-vermont-gas-respect-agriculture/#comment-73357

Guest Editorial. Monkton Chronicles

Guest Editorial

Monkton Chronicles...and beyond.

Contributed by Dr. Katharine Hikel,
and I do keep quoting doctors because they usually care about people's health...
they also are in the know about who knows who and how things get funded.
it is not rocket science.
Thanks Hr. Hikel for speaking up...
mg

One thing...is the inevitable industry price-jacking of shale gas as soon as everyone is hooked:http://theuticashale.com/driven-by-oil-shale-economics-natural-gas-prices-primed-for-slow-and-steady-rise/

http://shaleoilplays.com/2011/09/when-will-natural-gas-prices-rise/

Gas prices worldwide:http://shaleoilplays.com/2012/10/map-of-world-natural-gas-prices/

The Economist explains why prices must rise:http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21572815-natural-gas-prices-are-sure-riseeventually-bonanza-or-bane

So it's not going to be a form of cheap (or clean) energy. The only reason for justifying the use of shale gas is that we have a lot of it.

I would also like to call attention to the presence of Don Gilbert (VT Gas CEO) as chair of the compensation committee on the Board of Trustees at Fletcher Allen Health Care (which buys over $1M/year of his product). This is an egregious conflict of interest; and surely his activities on behalf of the gas company are not in keeping with the supposed mission of a nonprofit medical center. Perhaps more people should call for his resignation - as at Board meetings, which are open to the public, for which the schedule is here:http://www.fletcherallen.org/about/welcome/leadership/board_of_trustees/board_meetings.html

I have emailed Board Member Patti Fisher, MD, about this; she forwarded my call for his resignation to the Board Chair, so there is the first stone.

Katharine Hikel, MD

Now I want to add a few fall photos to get you in the 2013 color...mg

Gaz Pipeline Opposition Wrap up link

Press this link below for

Gaz Pipeline opposition Wrap up. Travelogue posts to date.

when you scroll down through the multiple postings,
at the bottom right click on older posts.

When the Addison Independent questioned my claim of censoring, I had to dig into my archives. Realizing I had to go back farther than Twitter could handle...circa August. I did find at least one instance in this wrap up of my blog posts against the Pipeline.
I think it was in May. That's when I stopped churning old blog posts.
They are here in a bunch as proof I am not the lone voice, but I am a voice
in this wild and wonderful Monkton,Vermont.

writing this last night so no editor working
Monkton Chronicles
Mary Gerdt

Chanting for Jane's Garden

A Chant for Jane's Garden

All my energy @ this moment
is for Jane & Her Family & Garden home.

No Pipeline for this place,
where Jane's Garden grows.

No Frackin Way
We around the world all say,
No Pipeline here,
No bully gaz drummers there.

This chant can go on for days or moments,
It's power is Strong.

More Gaz updates

Posting links as I get them...
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130911/exclusive-pipeline-safety-chief-says-his-regulatory-process-kind-dying

It is time to question the pipeline safety of pipes we already have,
let alone build new ones.

more about gaz pipeline fight....

"we don't need no thought control..."pink floyd

I eagerly reviewed what press I could find after the PSB hearing about the proposed pipeline.
PSB=Public Service Board.
a Quasi-judicial (lawyering/judges)
3 men
600 people showed up.
My heart felt hopeful.
how much more opposition needed to tell them, Stop.

The opposition had a bad rap for speaking out of turn.
I disagree and Rebecca helped me understand
the untold story
and the unspoken testimony of a local experienced Doctor.
He made a lot of sense and I post here so the world will have a record.
Now we wait until the board decides.
3 quasi judicians.

Friends,

Bill Fifield, long outspoken on the pipeline, made sure to get on line at the public hearing early, an hour early. He knew the rules: First come, first speak. He was third in line. While dozens waited, missing out on the rally outside, a buzz started going around that the PSB was going to ask two additional questions on the signup sheet: Are you in support of or opposed to the project; Did you speak at the March hearing. Rumor had it that the PSB planned to alternate speakers who were pro and con, and skip over altogether those who had spoken at the previous hearing unless there was time at the end. This plan, which was imposed on the spot, was not included in the PSB's published rules for the hearing from just last week.

Because there were so many opponents and so few supporters on line, a concern grew that many of the people who had followed the rules by coming early would not get a chance to speak, and that pipeline supporters would, in effect, get to skip ahead. Deeming this grossly unfair, many people on line decided that they had to make a small act of civil disobedience in order to actualize their right to speak. This hearing, after all, was the last chance to speak in public. The rumor turned out to be true, and however well intentioned the rule might have been, had we all complied by answering the questions correctly, the consequence would have been favorable to VGS by skewing the testimony. Only two speakers in the first hour came out in favor of the pipeline, which was, in fact, not a bad representation of all of the people who came to the hearing. Inarguably, it was a good representation of the people who diligently lined up to sign in to speak. If we had not flouted the un-warned rule the third speaker would have been a supporter of the pipeline skipping more than 12 opponents that had duly signed up, Bill included. There might have been more like 15 supporters speaking in that first hour, which is just about all of the people who spoke on their behalf anyway. The media left after about an hour, as they always do, and it would have grossly misrepresented the turnout, and the coverage would not have been as clear a slam-dunk victory for the opponents.

So some of us, determined to speak, marked the boxes in a way that would ensure we got the chance we deserved and according to all the published rules had the right to. We lied, yes. I'm not proud of that, myself, but I felt trapped and calculated that it was justified. Perhaps, if the PSB had properly warned this change, we could have had a more graceful response. Perhaps we could have talked them out of it. If not, perhaps each of us just might not have answered the question -- taken the fifth. But Bill, as he says, is a Boy Scout, and although he fully understood the sabotaging nature of the questions, he answered truthfully because he believed, perhaps, reason would prevail. In any case he just could not lie. He signed up as opposing the project, and as someone who spoke in March. They skipped his name and I, who was fourth, spoke third. Bill waited patiently all night to listen to the others and to see if they might come back around to his name. They did not.

Who should be ashamed? Bill, third in line, was tricked by the PSB out of speaking. Here is what he would have said.

Rebecca

---------------------------------------------------------------Vermont PSB Testimony - September 10, 2013

Gentlemen:

I’m Bill Fifield, a member of Rising Tide and a retired physician from Middlebury, and I’m speaking tonight because we have very little time left to prevent runaway climate change. Back when the three of you and when I was in elementary school, one of the guiding principles we heard over and over again, not only in school, but at home, at church and at cub scout meetings was that we should always strive to do the right thing. That principle seems to have been lost by many of our elected representatives in Washington; otherwise they would NOT have:

A- Voted down overwhelmingly a resolution simply stating that Congress accepts the EPA finding (supported by 97% of climate scientists) that “climate change is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for public health and welfare.”

B- Congress would not have passed legislation introduced by Vice President Cheney (the Halliburton Loophole) that exempted the fracking industry from Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act regulations. In my view, this was unconscionable. In my opinion, we in Vermont should be able to do better than that. So,

- Knowing that Vermont has banned fracking in the state because of environmental and health concerns

- Knowing that fracking fluid contains ingredients that are secret but is known to contain carcinogens such as formaldehyde, benzene and toluene

- Knowing that First American indigenous peoples in Alberta have an incredibly high incidence of biliary tract cancer due to contamination of their drinking water by fracking fluid

- Knowing that Vermont Gas claims that natural gas has 23% lower emissions than other fuels and quotes as a reference, the Energy Information Administration, which is part of the American Petroleum Institute, a trade association for the oil and gas industry

- Knowing that before being burned, methane can and does leak from wellheads, pipelines and storage tanks, and since, in the short-term, is up to 120 times as potent a greenhouse gas as CO2, natural gas is NOT cleaner than other fuels, as Vermont Gas would have us believe.

- Remembering that, several years ago, James Hansen, the world’s leading climatologist, said that 350 ppm of CO2 was the highest level of atmospheric CO2 that was compatible with the world as we know it, and that we just passed 400 ppm.

- Knowing that if we remain on our present course (burning fossil fuels, including methane) that within 15 (one-five) years, runaway, impossible to stop global warming will begin

- And knowing that Vermont Gas has said that, ultimately, 70% of the methane transported through its pipes will end up at IP, in New York State, and knowing that this will result in considerable short-term profits for a Canadian owned company, why would the VERMONT Public Service Board seriously consider approving this project for the public good of Vermont?

Gentlemen, I ask that when you consider the VGS application for a certificate of public good, that instead of focusing on short term savings and corporate profits, think about our grandchildren and remember what we learned all those years ago, DO THE RIGHT THING and vote against this project. Everyone in this room and indeed, in the state will bear witness to your decision. Thank you.

William K. Fifield, ,M.D. Middlebury

Update...Gaz Pipeline Opposition Speaks.

Copying some links posted on our anti pipeline listserv.
I am infinitely proud of those who stood up for sll of us.

http://www.wcax.com/story/23385783/plans-for-natural-gas-in-rutland This is the first article I have seen with a price tag for the entire project all the way to Rutland: $230 million.

Also vtdigger just posted a good story and a slide show: http://vtdigger.org/2013/09/11/opponents-of-natural-gas-pipeline-in-addison-county-dominate-psb-hearing/

http://vtdigger.org/2013/09/11/slideshow-scenes-from-wednesdays-psb-hearing-in-middlebury/

Will post the video once I find it.

Neighbors

I saw the sign on the TV,
the Evening local News 22, abc.

Went outside to check for berries and
Fred called to come see the neighbors intervewed.
There was the sign, and interview of our neighbors who have to defend private property they own. We are proud to display a stop the fracking pipeline sign.
We wish the Neighbors well in their fight and hope private property wins.
Tonight is the big hearing in Middlebury. My heart is with my neighbors.
Will you join me in a sphere of Earthly Energies....chant this today,
no pipeline,Monkton,Vermont....Thanks

Standing with the Sisters.

The Sisters sent me this plea and I stand with them...

After poisoning drinking water and increasing earthquake risk throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, now the fracking industry wants to build a dangerous pipeline through the heart of Kentucky, including hundreds of acres of historic farmland that an order of nuns have lived on for nearly 200 years. The nuns have kept the pipeline company surveyors off their land, but they need the Governor of Kentucky to step in.

Can you sign this petition to the governor and support the nuns against fracking?

http://act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/FrackingKY?referring_akid=.220639.u00-n7&source=taf

Thanks!

Watch this because farms do matter, people matter, neighbors matter, the environment matters and you might not understand

natural gas is not always natural
vermont gas is not owned or operated by vermonters
the proposed pipeline is to feed middlebury and a paper mill on the other side of Lake Champlain
the newspapers promoting natural gas pipeline get advertising revenue from vermont gas
and vermont gas's sister companies, the utilities du Vermont.
not to be a snob but canadians own all? most? of our power.
oh, except vermont yankee which is dying and soon to be dead.
i am happy to be able to post this video so you can hear some of the issues
from the people who are fighting Goliath energy

Some more Fracking Articles...Thx to Stop Gas Pipeline group

Thanks Jane and our web of gas pipeline opponents.

Here are some articles shared by people who care. You should too.

From Canadians...

http://www.watershedsentinel.ca/print/1336

About our precious food supply...

http://thefern.org/2012/11/livestock-falling-ill-in-fracking-regions-raising-concerns-about-food/

Some more science behind our griping...

http://www.clf.org/blog/uncategorized/vt-gas-pipeline-full-environmental-review-needed/
And link to the Pipe up channel...
With personal videos opposing the you know what...

http://vimeo.com/channels/pipeup

And from all the news that is fit to print...
Connect the dots guys, this could become a fracking reality...
(editor:sorry, first edition readers...here is the link.mg)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/DRILLING_DOWN_SERIES.html

Compare a gas pipeline to a highway denial....
Heaven knows the Circ could have eased congestion, traffic flow, safety,
better for businesses. But the EPA said no.
read on:

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20101123/NEWS02/101123018/EPA-opposes-circumferential-highway-around-Burlington
This is where they want to the the pipeline now...with no enviro review.
look the other way?

Scary fracking article here...
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/05/children-ban-talking-about-fracking

more about the lifetime gag order..
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/washington/confidential-agreement-should-have-been-part-of-washington-county-marcellus-shale-case-record-697530/

That should get you warmed up...hard to keep up with this all let alone fight it.

Guest post: movie link

Piping Up: Vermonters Speak Out Against the Fracked Gas Pipeline

A growing number of Vermonters in and around our community are concerned about the Canadian fracked gas transmission pipeline that is proposed to go through the farm fields of Chittenden and Addison counties and under our lake to New York State. You can learn about it by watching short videos of Vermonters expressing their concerns at a public hearing. Here is the first video: http:vimeo.com/wideiris/pipeup1. More to come!

From the Vermont Stop the Gas Pipeline Group.

Ranting about Gaz...what else?

To some it is called, Gaz Metro...

South of VT border, it is called Vermont Gas,

In Connecticut close to investors, it is called Valener who owns a chunk of Gaz Metro.

Guess they are who profits from Green Mtn Power too, aka Gaz Metro.

Confused yet?

http://www.wfsb.com/story/22866156/valener-announces-the-broadcast-of-its-financial-results-and-those-of-gaz-mtro-for-the-third-quarter-of-the-2013-fiscal-year

Guest editorial Links to public meetings re: Proposed Gaz Pipeline...We join Cornwall in saying, "No, Thanks"...

Guest editorial by

Kevin Burget...

he posted this great piece to our anti pipeline group...

Here are links to highlights and full coverage of Cornwall, VT public meeting with Vermont Gas Systems. VGS, a Canadian-owned company wants to put a transmission line containing Canadian fracked natural gas through Vermont and drilled under Lake Champlain to serve International Paper in Ticonderoga NY and connected with fracked gas infrastructure pending in NY State.

Cornwall Meeting - Highlights (14 min)

https://vimeo.com/68977623

Cornwall Mtg - Full Coverage (1 hr) part 1of2

https://vimeo.com/68916542

Cornwall Mtg Full Coverage - (1 hr) part 2of2

https://vimeo.com/68916543

Judging by the voiced opinions of Cornwall citizens, there is strong objection to the state seizing land of Vermonters, threatening homes, land values and Lake Champlain itself with an entirely new fossil fuel infrastructure, said to last 100 years, with only questionable short-term financial benefit to some Vermont families and businesses. According to MIT's recent studies, the pipeline is also as bad or worse than oil in terms of global warming emissions of Methane and CO2, let alone its permanent destruction of Alberta, a hitherto pristine province of Canada from fracking. In the long-term, Vermont is being asked to give right-of-way to a company that will "in perpetuity" be able to run fracked natural gas or indeed "any energy substances" via expanded infrastructure through this right of way forever, as worded specifically in the lease agreements VGS is pressuring landowners to sign.

This is rare footage, because it is one of the few times this company's executives must publicly confront the people its work will impact forever. If the Public Service Board approves the pipeline, VGS, protected by contract law and a Certificate of Public Good, will forever after speak only through its lawyers, if at all.

If you agree this is grave and wrong direction for Vermont to be headed, please read more and contact the Dept. of Public Service through the number listed here: http://www.risingtidevermont.org/stop-the-vermont-gas-pipeline.html . Speaking to these folks and your own town Select Boards are the only way to get the state to recognize the will of its citizens and stop this pipeline before the Public Service Board makes its ruling in the fall of this year.

Conservation Law Foundation Yes, We need a full environmental review in Vermont.

VT Gas Pipeline – Full Environmental Review Needed http://t.co/Nfl7dBykyH via @TheCLF
— Mary Gerdt (@marygerdt) July 14, 2013

Something You Can Do

Something You Can Do...

My neighbor Jane has sent this simple message,

a brief energy on your part, and who knows? maybe we can keep Jane's Garden Gaz Free

Jane Palmer, from the Front Porch Offered a way to get

Gaz Frei......Sans Gaz....Clean, Schoen (sorry, no oomlout)...Belle! Thanks Jane, Danke, Merci!

Jane Said: If you are feeling insignificant bur want to do something to help stop Vermont Gas from building this pipeline through our countryside, here is a way to make your voice heard. ( aside from the notes you have already sent to the PSB)

Sign this petition. All it asks is that our governor be consistent and follow through on the promises and claims he has already made. Sign it and then send it to anyone you know who might care about what happens to Vermont.

If you support the pipeline...as Rosanne Rosannadana used to say....never mind!

scroll down to sign after reading this disclaimer...

Anyone who cares about Vermont, read this and consider signing this petition.ty.meg

http://www.change.org/petitions/governor-peter-shumlin-stop-the-vermont-gas-pipeline

Cycles of Pipeline planning

25 years ago, there was a plan for a pipeline...
could it be that was enough time to retreat, plan and reapproach?
If this were not sacred ground, would any of us be fighting so hard to hang onto it?

From my neighbor Jane, whose garden is threatened by the proposed pipeline
...words of wisdom:
somethings never change. That project {1989}fell flat...and I think the industry learned a few things...mainly...break it up into smaller, easier to chew pieces. Hmmm.

Link to an article from 1989----

http://articles.philly.com/1989-09-17/business/26101508_1_vermonters-underground-pipeline-agricultural-acres