A 64-year-old woman was arrested earlier this week after she reportedly blockaded herself into a 1971 Ford Pinto and prevented Mountain Valley Pipeline construction in West Virginia.
Becky Crabtree, charged with obstruction earlier this week, was later released on her own recognizance, according to a local NBC affiliate.
Crabtree, who is a grandmother and retired schoolteacher, reportedly blockaded herself in the Pinto at the worksite of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which spans approximately 303 miles from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia.
“It just hit me,” Crabtree told Vice News on Friday. “I can’t just teach my students about climate change and have them fill out a sentence about fossil fuel energy and its negative impact. I know what the impacts are. I have to live this.”
Crabtree said she’s trying to “slow up the process” for the construction of the pipeline, because “once the pipeline is in the ground, the judge can say, ‘It is too late now.’ Sometimes the courts need time to catch up.”
Crabtree said she had written letters, organized debates, and attended town halls and protests to fight the construction of the pipeline prior to the demonstration.
“I’ve pretty much exhausted all my other options,” Crabtree said. “It wasn’t on bucket list to get arrested, but now can tell my grandkids that your grandmother was arrested trying to save this land.” Crabtree is currently awaiting her sentencing.
According to Vice News, Crabtree is the latest person to join the fight against the pipeline, with protests from local residents and environmental groups igniting across the region.
Once constructed, the pipeline would span more than 1,000 bodies of water and roughly 245 miles of forest, which protesters say could pose a threat to the area’s municipal water supplies and habitat, according to the publication.
Last week, a federal court rescinded permits for the project to cross the Jefferson National Forest, saying that the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management had not properly reviewed the pipeline’s environmental impact, according to The Washington Post.
The construction is scheduled to pass through 3.6 miles of the forest, according to the Post.
The agencies were ordered to reconsider the permits.
Prompted to look at this again, I couldn’t help but be impressed by how many common effects of brain injuries overlap with problems I already had to varying degrees.
I am not so big on the grief model used here, and prefer to think in terms of adjusting to changes. But, I did find this helpful when I was trying to learn more as an adult about an injury in my teens that just never got addressed then.
That was from postsurgical intracranial swelling. I was on heavy doses of steroids for months, to try to minimize the damage. Of course there was some, before they even noticed the problem. But, nobody wanted to admit the obvious. I didn’t have a spectacular knock to the noggin, or obvious alarming aphasia or anything like that, so yeah. I can sort of understand why some medical professionals might have been concerned about liability if they even admitted there was a problem, but my parents didn’t have that excuse (however shitty).
All too often, loved ones say things like “Control yourself”, or “Think how lucky you are to be alive”.
They may mean well, but statements like these only perpetuate grief.
Or at least make it a lot harder to come to terms with the changes, or get any kind of help/accommodations in doing so. The second there was the kind of response I kept getting if I mentioned any concerns about what was going on: denial. And some symptoms getting treated as psych problems. (With some meds making the situation a lot worse for someone already dealing with cognitive problems.) Also a decent bit of impatience, and sniping over things I really could not help. Some of those are continuing effects, not surprisingly.
I mean, it’s kind of weird needing to try to come to grips with something you’ve actually been living with for that long, as sort of the proverbial elephant in the living room. It’s still hard to sort out how much of which difficulties might be coming from what, maybe especially after this long. But, looking into it some did help me feel better, even if that did start over a decade after the fact.
And I’m at least clearer now that I really cannot magically make these problems go away through trying harder or finding the perfect antidepressant or whatever. Same goes for whatever that extra layer of problems got laid on top of. Them’s the breaks.
Amusingly enough, I was looking for this maybe a couple of weeks ago, and it just got another note.
America will do anything to maintain their prison population! Prisons
are traded on the Stock Exchange! Incarceration is the new SLAVERY!
I am at a loss for words to be honest lol.
this is literally what they did to create the crack game in LA. If you read Ricky freeway Ross book he says the police and CIA packed up train cars full of guns and left them parked right beside the tracks in Compton. They knew the people in Compton investigated the trains and train tracks. This was exactly the same scenario and now we know why entrapment work so well. People are needy and when they see things that appear to be free they will take them if they need them. these are poor kids therefore a class action suit would seem to be in order against the police for utilizing this sort of entrapment and deception with intention to create criminal cases that they manufactured with false bait.
This is why that TV show where they had cars wired for people to steal them didn’t stay on television very long. because lawyers and other people saw through the scenario and quickly made sure that this type of trap was never laid so openly again. Now we see Chicago utilizing it and we already know Chicago has lots of problems with guns and violence. I think people in Chicago need to step up and hold the police responsible for this and do not let them get away. This is the type of case that should be taken in federal court because no one should ever be entrapped in the name of the law
Watch For Yourself – This is a REPEAT of a generational plot
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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