Protesters Paint ‘Freedom Trail’ Along Gas Pipeline Route

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JP residents Andreé Zaleska, left, and Chuck Collins donned road worker gear to carry out a pavement-marking protest of the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline on Friday, May 15, 2015.

Parkway Pipeline Prevention League

JP residents Andreé Zaleska, left, and Chuck Collins donned road worker gear to carry out a pavement-marking protest of the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline on Friday, May 15, 2015.

JP residents Andreé Zaleska, left, and Chuck Collins donned road worker gear to carry out a pavement-marking protest of the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline on Friday, May 15, 2015.

Parkway Pipeline Prevention League

JP residents Andreé Zaleska, left, and Chuck Collins donned road worker gear to carry out a pavement-marking protest of the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline on Friday, May 15, 2015.

Jamaica Plain residents carried out a creative protest against what they see as a dangerous high-pressure gas pipeline slated for next-door West Roxbury.

Here's part of a press release from the opponents of the project:

In the spirit of Paul Revere, a group calling themselves the “Parkway Pipeline Prevention League,” have drawn attention to the dangers of the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline. On the morning of May 15, they painted a bright red “Freedom Trail” along the pipeline route with several signs saying “No Spectra,” a reference to the Houston-based energy corporation slated to start work digging up West Roxbury streets in June. The paint is water-soluble.

JP residents Andrée Zaleska and Chuck Collins carried out the protest garbed in road-worker gear.

JP resident Andreé Zaleska donned road worker gear to carry out a pavement-marking protest of the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline on Friday, May 15, 2015.

Parkway Pipeline Prevention League

JP resident Andreé Zaleska donned road worker gear to carry out a pavement-marking protest of the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline on Friday, May 15, 2015.

Federal regulators have already approved the pipeline, which runs next to a quarry where blasting is carried out.

“We feel an urgent need to alert our neighbors,” Zaleska said in statement. “This pipeline would present a clear and present danger, both because of local health and safety risks – and the reality of growing climate change and weird weather.”

City Councilor Matt O'Malley, who represents JP and West Roxbury, called the pipeline "The resulting paint job leads to a working quarry the pipeline would pass. The resulting paint job leads to a working quarry the pipeline would pass.[/caption]

[Editor's note: We've updated this item with statements from Spectra Energy.]

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