Support the #Fracking fighters...the #pipeline fighters...calling all property rights/soil quality/environmentally conscious

Hot off the Press....

Disappointed...
Not surprised, really,
Permit for phase 1 of pipeline "approved" whatever that means.
Environmental, land right of ways be d*mned, I suppose.

One more Last chance to speak out if you are in Middlebury, Vermont,

Please come to a crucial public hearing on Phase 2 of the Vermont Fracked Gas Pipeline at Middlebury Union High School this Thursday, June 12 (73 Charles Avenue.) Starts at 7, arrive early to get a seat, and even earlier to sign up to deliver a two minute commentary to the Public Service Board. This video looks at one couple's experience of Vermont Gas' plans to run the pipeline through the center of their farm. https://vimeo.com/97841416 

Pete Sears & Moonalice "That's Alright Mama" 2013-09-28 Woodstock, NY

Pete Sears sings "Down the Road A Piece" with Moonalice 02-21-10 Applega...

why we love Vermont rerun fall woods walk

Why we love Vermont

Summer Begins

Locust trees blossoming

Photos from archives

Summer Begins
Even though we burned a Fire yesterday...meg

Visualizing...Friday Nacht Musik

an unexpected hurdle when I am posting visual posts this week,

Fridays are for musik,

Ah...one of my favorite ASL music interpreters....

tgif

meg

visualizing

Visualizing

Chief Dan George's message of love: pic.twitter.com/KAdagtHQ8P
— RonDoty (@NativeDoty) April 21, 2014

visualizing

Vision & Hearing

There are images

I could not imagine not seeing

and

be OK with any of it

Which is why,

Hearing,

or

Sight,

Boy do you miss it when it is gone.

When I developed

Optic Neuritis,

it was a blurriness in my right eye,

a dimming, a pain,

sensitivity to light.

and colors were gone,

then pretty much everything.

Due to the brain's skillful ways,

I was fooled into thinking I could see,

thinking I scratched my eye,

not that it did not work.

My left one pulled up the slack and told my self,

don't worry...

After doctor x 3 and High doses IV steroids

and

MRI, etc,

most of my vision returned.

It did leave me with a taste, a tidbit,

of losing one's sight.

My Bro asked what would be worse to lose?

Sight or hearing?

Now that one made my hairs hurt...

Last week I focused on

Music,

the binding force, the beat, the common language,

no interpreter needed.

This week,

some visuals.

Once I saw red again,

after not seeing it,

it really made me appreciate it all the more.

meg

Gaz Update. June !st, 2014 #Fracking

The First of June,
A Beautiful season in Vermont,
Summer,
Or nearly so,

So I wanted to share a bunch of links for those interested in the latest.

Have had to turn it off this week to pace the news induced corticosteroid release...

In no particular order, 

An artist stops Alberta Pipeline:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/30/1303087/-Artist-Stops-Oil-Pipeline-Cold?detail=facebook

June 12th PM in Middlebury, VT,

Please show your support against the pipelie and attend...link:

http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5980/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=423247

About who really owns "vermont gas":

http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20140529/OPINION02/705299924/1018/OPINION

About the track record for Vermont Gas...which is not Vermonter owned.

http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/vermont-gas-old-promises-and-new-clearing-rile-neighbors-in-burlingtons-north-end/Content?oid=2373012

About the infanous protest:

Sara, our heroine :)

Just to clarify, attendees deny Vermont Gas' allegations that an employee was assaulted . This was a non-violent direct action planned by Rising Tide Vermont. We all know that VGS will do and say anything to protect their bottom line, including making false accusations that we assaulted someone.

Seven Days: Vermont Gas Protestor Arrested After Chaining Herself to HQ

VPR: Pipeline Protestors Storm Vermont Gas Headquarters

WPTZ: Police Unchain, Arrest Pipeline Protestor

WCAX: Pipeline opponents protest at Vermont Gas

Burlington Free Press: Protest staged at Vermont Gas, one arrested

And a bunch of our photos here: http://www.risingtidevermont.org/news/breaking-climate-justice-activists-blockade-vermont-gas-headquarters-drop-banner-from-roof

http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2014/05/27/vermont-gas-pipeline-protester-arrested-after-chaining-herself-to-hq?utm_source=Seven+Days+Email+Newsletters&utm_campaign=c464ca8cd7-Daily_7_Tuesday_0527145_26_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_24eb556688-c464ca8cd7-308401837

More concerning news...

http://www.wcax.com/story/25593423/winooski-car-crash-causes-gas-scare

A letter that press would not publish:

Concerning the Canadian Gaz Metro (VGS) proposed twelve inch, high pressure (600 psi) gas transmission pipeline through Addison County.

Vermont law (30 V.S.A., Section 248 (b)(5)) and common sense say that proposals that would be a threat to public health and safety are not in the Public Good.

Google "explosions of natural gas transmission pipelines" for pictures and record of that potential harm to Vermont and Vermonters.

Given that the Public Service Board approval of Phase 1 is a violation of Vermont law and oath of office, then the Certificate of Public Good for Phase 1 is not a "done deal".

Why should Vermont lives and property be sacrificed for cheap fuel from Canada ?

If you would like to help prevent that, read the documentation and what Vermonters can do that is in a file folder in the Town Clerk's office for public view in Colchester, Essex, Williston, St. George, Hinesburg. Monkton, New Haven, Bristol, Middlebury, Cornwall, and Shoreham.

John Madden

New Haven, Vermont

Nice job, JM.

>>>>>>>All for now...that wears me out......