As one pipeline project is shut down, resistance continues against another

Kinder Morgan announced yesterday it's suspending its planned $3-billion natural-gas pipeline from New York to New Hampshire that would have included segments in Massachusetts as well.

Meanwhile, opponents of the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline, part of a larger pipeline project by Algonquin Gas Transmission, blocked a large piece of construction equipment from entering the site where the company's contractors are building a transfer station in West Roxbury this morning.

Protesters, who initially were only holding a vigil on Centre Street, gathered in front of the main gate into the site when they saw the equipment - to be used to break up some ledge - arriving:

Photo by Andrea Doremus.

After about an hour, during which several police cruisers pulled up, they let it through and it was put to use preparing the site for the transfer station, which will pump gas from the pipeline into National Grid's pipeline network. No arrests were made.

Opponents of the West Roxbury pipeline are planning a larger rally and protest on Saturday that will involve another attempt to shut down work on the the high-pressure pipeline down Washington and Grove streets.

West Roxbury residents and allies from across the state got themselves arrested at protests last fall.

Sign on Centre Street: