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State Police Arrest 22 At Kinder Morgan Pipeline Site

This is map of Massachusetts with Berkshire County highlighted

Massachusetts State Police arrested 22 demonstrators in the Berkshire County town of Sandisfield Saturday at the site of a pipeline expansion.

The demonstrators refused orders to leave a restricted construction area at the site of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, a portion of which runs through Otis State Forest.

State police say the arrests in the morning and early afternoon, were made peacefully and without incident.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Lucas Willard is a news reporter and host at WAMC Northeast Public Radio, which he joined in 2011. He produces and hosts The Best of Our Knowledge and WAMC Listening Party.
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