FANG Protesters Chain Themselves to RI Compressor Station Gate

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FANG logoLet's talk about optics and the strategies employed by fossil fuel haters. We'll leave aside our standard argument that people who hate fossil fuels, like natural gas, are wildly hypocritical as their very existence is a direct result of the benefits of fossil fuels. Today we focus on two men who hit life's lottery--one (younger) became a pediatrician, the other (older) a physics professor. Last week the two chained themselves to the entrance of Spectra Energy's Burrillville, Rhode Island compressor station to call attention to Spectra's Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) project to beef up the compressor station and add pipelines to bring more cheap, abundant, clean-burning Marcellus Shale natural gas to gas-starved Rhode Island and other New England states. The two protesters belong to a fossil fuel hate group called FANG--Fighting Against Natural Gas. Using PVC pipe, chicken wire and (yes) tar, they intertwined their arms to make it extremely difficult to un-knot them. The police had to cut away a section of the fence and cart the fence and the two protesters to the hospital where doctors and nurses had to waste time untangling the mess. The optics, of course, is that FANG wants you to hear about a doctor and a physics professor (supposedly smart people) who put themselves in harm's way to protest something--so the something must be evil and rotten since these two virtuous "high value" (and smarter than the rest of us) members of society are sounding the alarm. We think you should focus on different optics--the logo/mascot FANG uses on their website (pictured here, taken from their website). A wolf bearing its fangs indicates extreme danger--and a willingness to go to extremes to cause property, and perhaps even bodily, damage. Homeland Security should take note...

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