The Globe’s John Hilliard has the latest on Newton resident Nathan Philips ongoing hunger strike to draw attention to a controversial Weymouth natural gas compressor station. And a State House News story can be found on Wicked Local Newton.
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It’s amazing how Massachusettsians have chosen to ignore the real, tangible damage that Gov. Baker has done to this state by giving carte blanche to corporate interests.
All he’s had to do is act like a “reasonable” guy on a token handful of long-ago-decided social issues, and that’s apparently been good enough for the latte liberals to leave him alone.
The Baker administration is a collection of shameless, bought-and-paid-for corporate shills. Kudos to Nathan for standing up to them.
This story has been picked up by the BU Brink, which mainly reports on research:
http://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/environmental-researcher-nathan-phillips-hunger-strike/?utm_campaign=bu_today&utm_source=email_20200206_faculty_staff&utm_medium=2_must_read_1&utm_content=research_environment
I am so proud of Nathan. He has such a large heart and has invested so much in environmental justice for the Fore River Basin. He also came out strong to organize people to help after the disaster in the Merrimack Valley. I hope his meeting tomorrow with the Department of Environmental Protection is productive.
The Weymouth compressor fight has been going on for years. It has been opposed by so many elected officials and other community leaders and yet it went forward. The business case for this site is falling apart. The company is failing to provide the required mitigation to minimize toxins being spread and yet construction continues. If this can happen in Weymoth with this much resistance and something that is clearly 100% against our climate action goals and has NO financial benefit to the commonwealth, it is clear this type of action can happen anywhere in the state except for maybe Swampscott (Gov. Baker’s hometown) or elsewhere on the Northshore.