Should Your Children Be Watching This? -200 Sugar Maples Lie Dead

A federal judge ruled in favor of Williams Partners in an eminent domain case against the Holleran-Zeffer family of Susquehanna County who operate a maple syrup business on a property that has been the family’s homestead since the 1950s. The ruling specifically gave Williams the go-ahead to cut down 200 of the trees the family relies on for its business to make way for the proposed Constitution Pipeline. Heavily-armed US Marshals accompanied Williams’ tree cutting crew to intimidate the peaceful demonstrators who had been standing with the family for weeks, holding signs saying things like “Sap Lines, Not Pipelines” and “No Eminent Domain for Corporate Gain”. It was a grotesque and terrifying move.

Wanda Guthrie is a member of the Environmental Justice Committee and Steering Committee of Pennsylvanians Against Fracking.

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