EAST HAMPTON, Connecticut — On Saturday, November 7, Sierra Club Connecticut supporters, other community groups, and allies walked for four hours across seven miles from Hurd State Park to Eversource Headquarters in East Hampton to protest the utility’s proposed Southeast Resilience Pipeline. Fifty people attended the Walk to Stop the SERPent Pipeline. Of the 50, 37 participated in the seven-mile walk to Eversource Headquarters.

Sierra Club and partner organizations have given the proposed Eversource pipeline the name “SERPent” to highlight its potential harm to public health, energy affordability, climate, and the Connecticut River which, if approved, the pipeline will run under.

“Prioritizing profit over the health of the environment is to our own detriment,” said Erin Day, Owner of Ten Summit Yoga and Earth Based Wellness. “Protecting our natural landscapes is essential, as the connection to the earth is what sustains our own well-being. Preserving this land from the pipeline is a vital step in honoring our relationship with nature and upholding our responsibility for a healthy future.”

“Building communities resilient to climate and economic crises requires improving people’s health and environments while preventing the danger and destruction posed by this pipeline and similar projects,” said Diana Martinez, of Chicks Ahoy Farm. “We can’t allow our futures to be sacrificed for corporate gain.”

“Eversource wants to build a pipeline under the Connecticut River because they make more money building pipelines than they do selling gas; they are a for profit company making a billion IN PROFIT per year so we know what their priorities are,” said Martha Klein, Sierra Club Connecticut and the No Pipeline Expansion Northeast Coalition.

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