NY Anti-Drilling Protesters Jailed After Refusing to Pay Fine

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Twelve protesters who suffer from what MDN calls FDS (Fracking Derangement Syndrome) were arrested in March for blocking the entrance to a legally operating facility near Watkins Glen, NY that will be used to store natural gas and propane in underground salt caverns (see NY Protesters Arrested for Blocking NatGas Storage Facility). Three of the twelve have pleaded guilty and after refusing to pay a $375 fine were sentenced to 15 days in jail. They'll get to have nice warm guest rooms in the clink in all likelihood heated by natural gas, and meals prepared by using natural gas. Do you think the irony will dawn on them as they sit there for two weeks? Nah, we didn't think so either...

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