The potential environmental impact of the proposed Pacific Connecter Gas Pipeline has landowners worried.
The potential environmental impact of the proposed Pacific Connecter Gas Pipeline has landowners worried.
The Oregon Women’s Land Trust owns 147 wooded acres about 100 miles away in Douglas County. The group’s mission statement says it “is committed to ecologically sound preservation of land, and provides access to land and land wisdom for women.”
Board member Francis Eatherington says a clear-cut pipeline route through the property would make it difficult to fulfill that mission. And board Secretary Kaseja Wilder says if the pipeline is built, “there will be women who will come out here and they’ll chain themselves to things and they’ll lie down in front of machinery.”
Opposition to the pipeline has created some unusual alliances. Rancher Bill Gow says on most other issues, he’d be on the opposite side of the Oregon Women’s Land Trust. But he is also opposed to this project.
Read more at NPR.
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