Activists protest the use of caverns for storage of natural gas and blockade the entrance to the Crestwood plant.

I think we just need to make it a priority again, and I think now is the time to do it. Now is always the time to do stuff.

An Ithaca College student was arrested and charged Aug. 4 for participating in an environmental protest.

While the powers of Reading and Schuyler County have realized that sending the We Are Seneca Lake protesters to jail is costly and only fuels our movement, many in my activist cohort believe that Judge Berry's hesitance to sentence me runs deeper than that. They joke that he sees me as an incarnation of his own young granddaughter, who, according to Berry, refuses to speak to him when he sends people to jail.