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Updated December 19, 2020, 2:30 a.m.
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From Weymouth to East Boston to Minnesota, fossil fuel projects carry the day
Having spent many mornings, at the crack of dawn, standing with the good citizens that make up the Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, or FRRACS, holding signs of protest on the bridge above the Weymouth compressor plant site, I was glad to see an investigative piece by Boston Globe Spotlight fellow Mike Stanton (âBrute lesson in power politics,â Page A1, Dec. 13). Sadly, we are seeing parallel investments in hazardous fossil fuel infrastructure as close as East Boston, another community that will bear the brunt of the hunger for and profits from gas, all the way to Minnesota, where the same company that FRRACS is fighting is building Pipeline 3.