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Massachusetts: Religious Leaders Arrested Blocking Spectra Pipeline

HeadlineMay 26, 2016

Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, more than a dozen religious leaders were arrested Wednesday for blocking construction of another Spectra gas pipeline. The interfaith group held a prayer on the construction site in West Roxbury, where Spectra is trying to build a gas pipeline. Local residents and politicians have long opposed the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline; they say it’s dangerous for the pipeline to run alongside a quarry where there is frequent blasting.

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