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February 10, 2016

Vermont: Activists Shut Down Eminent Domain Hearing to Stall Gas Pipeline
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And in the Vermont capital Montpelier, community members shut down an
eminent domain proceeding Tuesday that would have helped pave the way
for a gas pipeline-by breaking into song.

Protesters, singing: "Officer, my dear, all the people here are telling
you to leave these folks alone. There's no need to take their land and
home. Officer, my dear, all the people here."

The protesters kept singing, and the hearing was adjourned, stalling
efforts by Vermont Gas to seize land from Claire Broughton, a
77-year-old resident of Monkton, Vermont. Protesters say the pipeline
would fuel global warming by carrying gas extracted through hydraulic
fracturing, or fracking.


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