Saturday morning a group of about 150 anti-natural gas folks got together to protest natural gas development in New York State. We provided a live report that day but there’s a lot more to tell. This was like some Back to the Future time machine trip to the 1960′s without the magic or the DeLorean and nothing but the eccentric Doc Brown. It was totally anti-climatic – a protest that, in the end, and, in a word, bombed like a poor comedy routine.

The protestors began by meeting at a park and ride facility in Cayuta, New York (just south of Planet Ithaca) where several out of state vehicles driven helped filled the parking lot. We noticed some familiar faces such as the Raging Chicken’s friend Wendy Lee from Bloomsburg University, for example (the Raging Chicken is a website run by a Michael Moore wanna-be out of Kutztown). Once there were no parking spots left for anyone, including people using the park and ride for its intended purposes, the natural gas opposition vehicles (NGOV’s) overflowed to a motel parking lot next door. The joke was on them though as Frank Maines, the owner of the Redwood Inn, who is very supportive of the natural gas industry, called the police.

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