Sunoco Tricks Radicalized Protester – Returns and Cuts More Trees

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Last week MDN told you about the daughter of a Huntingdon County, PA landowner radicalized by Big Green groups--as evidenced by her association with well known protesters previously arrested--who took to a tree on her mom's property in order to illegally stop crews working on tree clearing for the Mariner East 2 pipeline (see PA Anti Literally Goes Up a Tree to Stop Mariner East 2 Pipeline). Even though she was breaking the law--and a judge's order--local law enforcement couldn't be bothered with climbing the tree to arrest her (see ‘Wackos in the Trees’ Protest Continues in Huntingdon County, PA). Nor, does it seem, did they arrest her after she came down on April 1. She stayed up a tree until April 1 because crews can no longer clear trees for fear of harming the threatened Indiana bat species that sometimes hangs out in those trees. Or at least, that's what we thought. In a very clever move, tree clearing crews returned to the property this week, after April 1, and cleared more trees previously inhabited by the nutty landowner's daughter. Don't worry, they got permission...

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