As part of a nationally coordinated week of action, 350 Maine, a grassroots movement addressing the climate crisis, is blockading a Pan Am train as it passes through downtown Fairfield tonight, preventing roughly 70,000 barrels of crude oil from reaching the Irving Refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick. Police are on the scene. Trains running through Maine carry crude from the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota, where it is “fracked” or extracted by blasting a high pressure toxic cocktail deep into the ground to release the oil from shale rock, polluting air and water in surrounding communities.
For more see Fearless Summer: Two Trains Carrying Fracked Gas Blocked in Maine