Enbridge continues to send out trucks full of suspected arsenic and asbestos-laden coal ash. It presents an ongoing, unacceptable risk to public health to Fore River Basin residents and those along the routes across Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and possibly Maine.
In response Nathan Phillips is going on a hunger strike to force the MA Department of Environmental Protection and the Baker Administration to take appropriate remediation action.
Check out his demands here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZVTdYbXWldXC5zYbe2PGg8RVUJEhZtAPTaISTNcD5rw/edit?usp=sharing
And call:
Governor Baker: 617-725-4005
DEP Commissioner Suuberg: 617-292-5500
Message:
“I am calling to urge you to meet the 3 demands that will allow the ongoing hunger strike of Nathan Phillips to cease.”
Nathan is asking the state to do what it is legally obligated to do – protect the workers and community from being exposed to arsenic and asbestos. The silence is deafening.
I also have fear that DEP and Baker aren’t able to protect the people from the poisons surrounding the Weymouth compression station.
I am curious as to whether we can publicly talk about why we fast? This isn’t to question the integrity of Nathan’s fast. Fasting is an ancient form of going inward when the outward seems tragic.
Fasting isn’t a death wish, but some see it as courting death.
I respect Nathan’s position. I don’t know how to support him.