Lisa’s life has been dominated by fracked gas infrastructure ever since Dominion Energy proposed an expansion of a 200+ mile pipeline that cuts through her rural community.

“From the start we’ve said that these guys are bullies,” Ellen said at a press conference outside the courthouse. “They come in and say you know we’re going to take your property through eminent domain and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

“We’re being sentenced to 40 years of toxic fracked gas while Kelly is being offered 12 to 18 months.”

On April 23, the day after Earth Day, over 1500 New Yorkers rallied and marched in Albany to call on New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo to show real climate leadership.

When I came to Camp White Pine last summer the sound of birds filled the Pennsylvania woods. This spring the woods were beginning to come awake but so were construction vehicles destroying those woods to build Energy Transfer Partner ‘s Mariner East 2 pipeline.

A month ago the high school where I spent four years of my life became a war zone. I watched online with the world as images of terror poured out of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. For a month now I’ve been struggling to write about what that felt like.

I read over and over again people saying they never thought something like this could happen in Parkland. I never felt that way.

The proposed plan is to have two 7.9 megawatt fracked gas fired turbines power and heat Empire State Plaza, the massive 89-acre Albany capitol-building complex where the Governor and his administration work from daily.

“It remains a mystery to us why the Governor with all his lofty stated goals for minimizing greenhouse gases, why he would be willing to expose this community in particular, which is predominantly a community of color, to obvious toxins, ” said Sheridan Hollow resident and Albany County Legislator, Merton Simpson.

Governor Cuomo banned fracking in New York in 2014, but the state is expanding its use of fracked gas for heating and energy, building pipelines, compressor stations and power plants like CPV all over the state.