Climate activist convicted after pipeline protest in Montana

[Smokin Joe]

Climate activist convicted after pipeline protest in Montana

FORT BENTON – An activist who was trying to call attention to climate change was found guilty of criminal charges on Wednesday for closing a valve last year on a pipeline carrying crude oil from Canada to the United States.

Leonard Higgins, who was charged with trespassing and turning off the valve at the Express Pipe Line in Coal Banks Landing in 2016, has been found guilty on two charges including one felony.

Excerpt, more at:
http://www.ktvh.com/2017/11/climate-activist-convicted-after-pipeline-protest-in-montana

[Smokin Joe]

This was part of the protests going on at the same time the Standing Rock crowd were holding up the DAPL and destroying equipment, etc.

Another view of the same poo. (Yes, I'm editorializing, and glad they nailed him. We'll see how sentencing goes.)

http://hosted2.ap.org/SCSUM/d5951d46bb22415db3ecf1a123d421cf/Article_2017-11-22-US-Pipeline-Protest-Trial-The-Latest/id-0d4bf09e1cad4a1cbe29e385847f0a41