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Fracked Gas Protesters Lock Themselves in West Roxbury Pipeline Trench

Photo of Bobby Wengronowitz (front), Shea Riester (middle), Martin Hamilton (back) in trench
Photo of Bobby Wengronowitz (front), Shea Riester (middle), Martin Hamilton (back) in trench

Six people locked themselves together at 9:50 a.m. Saturday to block two construction sites of Spectra Energy’s West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline (WRL), which would bring fracked gas into Boston. Bound at the waist and ankles using chains and superglue, they aim to stop the project from endangering the community and disrupting the climate.

JP Moms Go on Climate Change Tagging Spree

Tagging by JP's chapter of Mothers Out Front, a climate change action group.

Tagging by JP’s chapter of Mothers Out Front, a climate change action group. Credit: Courtesy of Viki Bok

The JP chapter of the climate-change action group Mothers Out Front has been writing messages on the neighborhood’s snowbanks.

Letter: Join Hundreds of JP Residents at The People’s Climate March

Dear Neighbors,

Some of you may know me through my house, JP Green House. My family and I built one of the first “carbon neutral” houses in Jamaica Plain—rehabbing a hundred-year-old corner store in the Woodbourne neighborhood. With the addition of solar panels this year, we are now “energy positive”—the house creates more energy than it uses. We also grow all our own produce in our backyard organic garden. (You’re welcome to get the whole story on our website at JPGH.org.)

Welcome to Miami, Bienvenido a Miami

A new report says Bostonians can expect Miami-style summers by 2100 if carbon emissions stay on their current trajectory.