MONDAY Â Â EDITION
ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT
Vol. 26 No. 15
Middlebury, Vermont
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By  ZACH  DESPART ADDISON  COUNTY  —  Local  dairy  farmers  are  riding  a  wave  of  high  wholesale  prices  that  some  say  ZLOO ÂżQDOO\ SXOO WKHP RXW IURP WKH dairy  crash  of  2009. “The  prices  we’re  receiving  now  are  much  stronger,â€?  said  Bob  Foster  of  Foster  Brothers  Farm  in  Middle- bury. Â
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Author  schools  writers in  environmental  activism By  WEYLAND  JOYNER RIPTON  —  Acclaimed  writer  and  activist  Rick  Bass  sparked  a  lively  discussion  about  activ- ism,  the  environment,  and  the  justice  system  when  he  gave  a  lecture  titled  “The  Joy  of  Being  Arrestedâ€?  at  Middlebury  Col- lege’s  Bread  Loaf  campus  this Â
past  Thursday  morning. Bass  told  the  story  of  being  ar- rested  when  he  zip-Âtied  himself  to  the  gates  of  the  White  House  to  protest  the  Keystone  XL  pipeline  the  day  after  President  Obama’s  State  of  the  Union  ad- dress  in  February  2013. (See  Bass,  Page  13)
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Pipeline  foes  urge  PSB  to  nix  project By  JOHN  FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY  —  Around  80  people  took  to  the  podium  at  the  Middlebury  Union  High  School  auditorium  on  Thursday  to  urge  the  Vermont  Pub- lic  Service  Board  to  reject  Vermont  Gas’s  pro- posed  natural  gas  pipeline  that  would  extend  from  Middlebury  to  the  International  Paper  Co.  mill  in  Ticonderoga,  N.Y. 7KXUVGD\ÂśV ZDV WKH VHFRQG DQG ÂżQDO KHDULQJ the  PSB  held  regarding  Phase  II  of  Vermont  Gas’s Â
Addison-ÂRutland  Natural  Gas  Project,  a  $70  mil- lion  pipeline  that  will  also  traverse  the  towns  of  Cornwall  and  Shoreham  and  be  drilled  under  Lake  Champlain  before  arriving  at  the  IP  mill.  The  plan  KDV GUDZQ FRQVLGHUDEOH ÂżUH IURP DIIHFWHG ODQG- owners,  environmentalists  and  community  lead- ers  who  believe  the  pipeline  could  be  dangerous,  would  infringe  on  private  property  rights,  and  could  affect  the  water  quality  of  Lake  Champlain. Opponents  have  also  objected  to  the  notion  that Â
WKH SLSHOLQH ZRXOG SULPDULO\ EHQHÂżW WZR RXW RI state  corporate  entities  —  IP  of  New  York  and  Ver- mont  Gas,  a  Canadian-Âowned  company.  They  note  that  only  small  pockets  of  Vermont  residents  along  the  pipeline  route  would  be  able  to  tap  into  the  nat- ural  gas,  and  some  of  them  pledged  on  Thursday  not  to  become  consumers  of  a  product  that  is  cur- rently  about  half  as  costly  as  fuel  oil. “We  would  say  ‘no,’  we  absolutely  do  not  want  (See  Pipeline  hearing,  Page  22)