Seneca Lake

Nine people were arrested Thursday morning for trespassing at Texas-based Crestwood Midstream’s gas storage facility gates on the shore of Seneca Lake. These arrests follow nine arrests primarily of business owners on Wednesday, eight on Tuesday and 10 on Monday as the ‘We Are Seneca Lake’ civil disobedience campaign continues a fourth week of blockades to stop the gas storage facility. In total, 61 arrests involving 56 unique individuals have now occurred at the gates of Crestwood since the campaign began Oct. 23. “I love the Finger Lakes and I’m a firm believer in alternative energy, I’ve lived off the grid for 25 years,” Clark said. “I just feel committed to it, so I’m living it. If I’m not here, I just feel like I would not be doing my job.” Rodgers marks the third member of the Seneca Lake 12, a group who were arrested in March of 2013 for blocking Crestwood’s gates, to return and be re-arrested in the We Are Seneca Lake movement. The other two are Michael Dineen, 65, of Ovid, who was arrested Nov. 18, and Sandra Steingraber, 55, of Trumansburg, who was arrested Oct. 29. Steingraber, along with fellow arrestees Colleen Boland and Roland Micklem, went to jail last night after pleading guilty to trespass and refusing their fines. Micklem is being kept at the Schuyler County Jail in Watkins Glen, while Steingraber and Boland have been sent to the Chemung County Jail in Elmira. They were each given the maximum sentence of 15 days.