Vermont

Wind Takes Center Stage In Vermont Governor’s Race

August 12, 2016 Phil McKenna, www.insideclimatenews.org Create! Elections, Vermont, Wind

By Phil McKenna for Inside Climate News - Sue Minter's victory in the Democratic primary came over an opponent of big wind projects. She now faces another anti-wind Republican opponent in November. In a statewide contest notable for its vigorous debate over wind power, victory went to the candidate who favors industrial-scale wind development. Sue Minter, who had financial backing from Vermont wind developers, won Tuesday's Democratic gubernatorial primary

Right-To-Know Fight Heats Up As Pro-GMO DARK Act Advances

March 2, 2016 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Resist! GMOs, Legislation, Vermont

By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams - Defying the rights of Americans who overwhelmingly want to know more about what they eat, a Senate committee on Tuesday advanced legislation that will block states from requiring that foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMO) be labelled. The so-called Denying Americans the Right to Know (DARK) Act (pdf) passed the Senate Agriculture Committee 14-6. It now moves to the upper chamber's floor, setting up a Congressional battle as Vermont prepares to become the first state to implement a mandatory GMO labeling law.

Fracked Gas Pipeline Protest, Feb 9th, Montpelier VT

February 11, 2016 Todd Boyle, www.youtube.com Resist! Fracking, Pipelines, Protests, Vermont

By Todd Boyle for Rising Tide Vermont - Dozens of community members just shut down ANOTHER eminent domain hearing for Vermont Gas Systems fracked gas pipeline. We packed the hearing room, made them let EVERYONE in, and used our voices to defend the home of our friend Claire Broughton. The hearing was adjourned within ten minutes, further delaying the eminent domain process and the construction of the largest fossil fuel project Vermont has seen in the past 50 years. It's getting pretty clear - It's time to leave the gas inside the ground. We're singing out for climate justice NOW!

Branding Tradition: A Bittersweet Tale Of Capitalism At Work

February 10, 2016 Steven Gorelick, www.localfutures.org Organize! Creative Economy, Local Economy, Vermont

By Steven Gorelick for Local Futures - Expensive labor-saving technologies not only make it difficult for small producers to survive, they also reduce the number of jobs available among those that remain. It’s true that 24 jobs have been created in Island Pond by the Sweet Tree operation; but 100,000 taps divided among numerous small-scale operations would provide livelihoods for 5 to 10 times as many people. The local economic benefits would also be far greater: the profits from Sweet Tree’s operation will be siphoned into investment portfolios in Connecticut, while the profits from those smaller producers would circulate locally.

Climate Advocates Prevent Eminent Domain Proceedings For Pipeline

February 3, 2016 Staff, www.risingtidevermont.org Resist! Pipelines, Protests, Vermont

By Staff of Rising Tide Vermont - Monkton, VT, Thursday, Jan. 28th, 2016 -- Over 70 Addison County residents and climate advocates from across the state prevented a land appraisal by the Department of Public Service and Vermont Gas Systems today. The appraisal was intended to facilitate the condemnation of Claire Broughton’s land in order to construct the proposed fracked gas pipeline. Supporters of Broughton formed a human chain across the property and refused to let state and company officials through.

Protesters Shut Down Eminent Domain Hearing In Monkton

January 2, 2016 Michael Polhamus, www.reformer.com Resist! eminent domain, Pipelines, Protests, Vermont

By Michael Polhamus for Battleboro Reformer - MONKTON, VT - Protesters shut down an eminent domain hearing Wednesday in Monkton's Volunteer Fire Department Hall. The demonstration delayed what was to be the first of three hearings to be held by the Public Service Board as part of eminent domain proceedings for three private properties. Vermont Gas has permission from 98 percent of landowners to build a pipeline through Addison County. The company, a subsidiary of Montreal-based Gaz Metro, has constructed a section in Chittenden County and plans to lay another 30 miles of pipeline from Williston to Middlebury.

Rising Tide Vermont Escalates Resistance To Pipeline

January 1, 2016 Staff, www.itsgoingdown.org Resist! Pipelines, Vermont

By Staff of It's Going Down - On December 30th, 2015 Rising Tide Vermont organized a shut down of the hearing proceedings to determine logistics in Vermont Gas Systems’ declaration of eminent domain over the land of Vermonters living in the small rural town of Monkton, VT. Activists from various climate justice organizations gathered inside of where the hearing was to be held. As the hearing officer began the proceedings a Monkton native stood up and interrupted him with the indignation of so many courageous elderly Vermonters who have been bullied and harassed for years by the corporate pigs of Vermont Gas.

Santa And Grandparents Arrested For Climate Defense

December 16, 2015 Rising Tide Vermont, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Vermont

By Rising Tide Vermont for Popular Resistance. Burlington, VT - Fred Wolfe, the former Santa of Strafford, VT, is awaiting a jury trial with the surviving members of The Williston Six in Chittenden County in the next few weeks. In September 2015, Wolfe and five other grandparent activists were arrested on trespassing charges by Williston Police, while blocking the pipeline construction staging site of Vermont Gas Systems on Route 2. Now, the State of Vermont is seeking jail time for the five activists. (One of the defendants, Nina Swaim, died of a stroke on October 15th, shortly after the September action.) The group says the project, and all fossil fuels, threaten the future of their grandchildren and future generations.

Vermonters Protest Fracked Gas Pipeline

October 26, 2015 Rose Spillman, www.wcax.com Resist! Pipelines, Protesters, Vermont

By Rose Spillman for WCAX - MONTPELIER, Vt. - The fight over the Vermont Gas pipeline continues. Saturday crowds of people filled the streets in Montpelier to protest the project while the company stands behind its plans. Avery Pittman is a Vermont Gas customer who has taken part in many protests against the company's natural gas pipeline. "This project clearly does not make any sense for where we are right now, and as a rate payer in Burlington, I was not excited that I was gonna be having to pay for it," said Pittman. The pipeline is already undergoing construction from Colchester to Williston in order to bring Vermont Gas service to people in Addison County, but protesters like Pittman want the construction to end.

Vermonters Occupy Capital To Stop Fracking Pipeline

October 25, 2015 Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Fracking, Pipelines, Vermont

By Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Montpelier, VT - On Saturday, Oct. 24, more than 100 people demonstrated against a pipeline that will carry fracked gas from Colchester to Rutland if it is completed. The pipeline is being built by Vermont Gas which is a subsidiary of the Canadian company Gaz Metro of Quebec. Concerned Vermonters gathered on the lawn in front of the Capitol in Montpelier and then marched through the streets, passing the building where the Public Service Board, which approved the pipeline, meets. Much to the surprise of local law enforcement, the marchers then took over State Street and set up a giant replica of a fracking well. The crowd gathered there to listen to speeches. Police shut the street down. In the evening, some from the group set up tents to occupy the street.

Rising Tide Member Shuts Down Essex Pipeline Site

September 18, 2015 West Coast Native News, www.westcoastnativenews.com Resist! Environment, Oil & Gas, Oil Pipeline, Vermont

By West Coast Native News - A young Burlington woman removed herself from atop an excavator early Thursday afternoon, ending a protest by the group Rising Tide Vermont on a Vermont Gas Systems work site. Protesters from group Rising Tide Vermont disrupted the site in Essex along the westbound lane of Vermont 289 early Thursday morning as part of their ongoing efforts to halt construction on the pipeline completely. Molly Stuart, a member of the environmental activist group, chained herself to the arm of excavator on the site, Rising Tide said. Essex police Capt. George Murtie said Stuart was taken to the Essex Police Department for processing, and he anticipates she will be charged with unlawful trespass. Additional charges may also be brought if Stuart damages any of the equipment, Murtie said. Protesters hung a sign that said, “This pipeline ends with us” from the excavator when Stuart first ascended.

Victory For Vermont On GMO Labeling

May 1, 2015 Organic Consumers Association, www.organicconsumers.org Create! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Vermont

The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) issued this statement today in response to yesterday’s ruling by a federal judge in Vermont clearing the way for the state’s GMO labeling law to take effect in July 2016: “This landmark ruling not only paves the way for Vermont’s GMO labeling law to take effect on schedule, July 1, 2016, but more importantly it signals that the courts agree that states have a constitutional right to pass GMO labeling laws,” said Ronnie Cummins, international director of the Organic Consumers Association. “This ruling also bodes well for GMO labeling bills that are moving through other state legislatures, including Maine, where a public hearing on Maine’s LD 991 is scheduled for April 30,” Cummins said.

Groups Call To Scrap Entire Vermont Gas Pipeline Project

February 11, 2015 Rising Tide Vermont, www.risingtidevermont.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Pipeline, Vermont

Today a coalition of organizations including Just Power, Rising Tide Vermont, 350Vermont and Toxics Action Center renewed calls to cancel all phases of the Vermont fracked gas pipeline, in the wake of an announcement that Vermont Gas will no longer proceed with Phase II. The coalition is calling on the Vermont Public Service Board to revoke the Certificate of Public Good for Phase I in light of the near doubling of Phase I costs, the stark climate impacts of fracked gas, and impacts on landowners in the path of the pipeline. Yesterday, the PSB was given permission by the Vermont Supreme Court to undertake a review of the Phase I permit with no time or scope constraints.

Lessons From Vermont

January 31, 2015 A.W. Gaffney, www.jacobinmag.com Strategize! Healthcare, Vermont

Has the tide of health care justice turned — in the wrong direction? Last month, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin announced that he could no longer “responsibly support” a funding plan for his long-awaited “single-payer” plan for the state. It wasn’t long before some on the Right claimed a historic victory. “As crises of faith go,” the Wall Street Journal editorial board gloated, “this is Mikhail Gorbachev circa 1991 territory.” After all, single-payer health care, according to the Journal, is not merely “the polite term for socialized medicine,” but nothing less than “the ultimate goal of the political left.” Now, inapt historical analogies aside, it is fair to concede theJournal’s point that universal health care has long been on the left and progressive agenda, from the “[f]ree medical care, including midwifery and medicines” called for by the 1891 Erfurt Programonward.

Vermont Pushes For Public Bank, Wins Local Investment

January 13, 2015 Alexis Goldstein, www.yesmagazine.org Organize! Finance and the Economy, Public Banking, Vermont

Right before 2014 came to a close, Wall Street won an enormous victory in the year-end spending bill. The so-called “CRomnibus” bill, which included language written by Citigroup lobbyists, gutted a key piece of Wall Street reform meant to prevent future bailouts of big banks with taxpayer money. This win came after the financial industry spent years chipping away at the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which passed in 2010. Wall Street lobbyists gained little victories along the way, but never stopped asking for more. By making bold and ongoing asks, Wall Street was able to win, even when lawmakers sought a compromise.

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