Activists Disrupt Construction of North Brooklyn Pipeline #climatejusticenow #climatechange #climatechangeisreal #thisisaclimateemergency #climateemergency #extinctionrebellion #xrnyc #extinctionrebellionnyc #renewableenergy

thats the pipeline.xr_nyc writes: "Today 10 XR NYC rebels were arrested for shutting down construction of the North Brooklyn fracked gas pipeline. Our fourth demand is to have a just transition for all. This includes fossil fuel workers. Of course, this also includes all those whose utility bills will be raised if this unnecessary, unsustainable pipeline’s installation is completed. Extinction Rebellion practices nonviolent direct action to disrupt business as usual because we want all life on earth to have a chance, and not just a slim chance, at surviving what is to come. Last April, New York City declared a climate and ecological emergency. Just this month, the Mayor’s office committed to ban new fossil fuel infrastructure. Despite this, National Grid’s Metropolitan Reliability Infrastructure (MRI) project is underway: a 30-inch-wide, 6.8-mile-long natural gas pipe snaking through the heart of Brooklyn, from Brownsville to Greenpoint. Extinction Rebellion’s second demand states that “Government must act now to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025.” The construction of this pipeline directly conflicts with the governments’ statements and the actions necessary to meet that demand. And so, we rebel."

As I write this activists are risking arrest blocking  the North Brooklyn Pipeline.

For weeks we planned the action.

Two weeks before, activists came  together to halt work on the pipeline.

“Don’t wait for the pipeline to burst,” they screamed. “We say no.”

National Grid stopped work when they heard the community was coming to express disapproval of their efforts. 

The next day they were back, building their $180 million  fracked pipeline through North Brooklyn, bringing methane gas.

At  the construction site, eleven  activists held a banner declaring;

“No North Brooklyn Fracked Gas Pipeline”

Workers stopped immediately.

One even gave us water.

Extinction Rebellion members held a sign reading:

“Declare a Climate Emergency.”

Activists with Sane Energy Project worried that the project  would be rubberstamped unless  the community responds, condemning it immediately, and forcefully.

The state of New York has banned  fracking  and passed the CCPA,

yet fossil fuel projects  continue.

The time is now to move to renewables.

In  England, a court ruled the third runway in Heathrow to be illegal over climate.

We need the same thinking here.  

Hopefully, the actions will catch on and others will join the wave of actions.

I spent the week coping with a misdemeanor charge from the Swarm the Senate actions in January, threats of  jail time,  dealing with court and legal stuff, charges rising and falling.

Direction action moves and shakes, and  moves you to your core. 

Thanks to those taking charge with their bodies. 
Ten were just arrested, putting their bodies on the line.