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Enbridge oil pipeline protestors gather at Mason courthouse to support four charged with felony
Charged with a felony for her part in protesting an oil pipeline project, Vicci Hamlin seems as determined to fight her criminal case as she was to remain attached to a piece of construction equipment.
“I am willing to go to prison if I have to,” Hamlin said Thursday, Aug. 29, outside Ingham County District Court in Mason, where she and about 30 supporters gathered for a preliminary examination.
At the hearing’s close, District Judge Donald Allen found there was probable cause to believe Hamlin of Michigan City, Ind.; Lisa Leggio of Holland; and Barbara Carter of Detroit resisted and obstructed police and trespassed on property controlled by Enbridge oil corporation. Their cases now will go to circuit court.
Ingham County Sheriff’s deputies arrested the three July 22 in the area of Grimes and Dexter Trail roads northwest of Stockbridge, where Enbridge is replacing and increasing the capacity of the 6B pipeline. The same pipeline ruptured near Marshall in July 2010, spilling more than 800,000 gallons of heavy crude into the Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River.
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2013/08/enbridge_oil_pipeline_protesto.html#incart_river_default
“I am willing to go to prison if I have to,” Hamlin said Thursday, Aug. 29, outside Ingham County District Court in Mason, where she and about 30 supporters gathered for a preliminary examination.
At the hearing’s close, District Judge Donald Allen found there was probable cause to believe Hamlin of Michigan City, Ind.; Lisa Leggio of Holland; and Barbara Carter of Detroit resisted and obstructed police and trespassed on property controlled by Enbridge oil corporation. Their cases now will go to circuit court.
Ingham County Sheriff’s deputies arrested the three July 22 in the area of Grimes and Dexter Trail roads northwest of Stockbridge, where Enbridge is replacing and increasing the capacity of the 6B pipeline. The same pipeline ruptured near Marshall in July 2010, spilling more than 800,000 gallons of heavy crude into the Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River.
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