They wanted to pass this resolution, already in the handouts at the beginning of the meeting, without even waiting for citizen comments. They did listen first to a few people who had signed up to to talk about the compressor station, including WWALS member David Shields, whose family has an organic farm and discovered they’d be downwind of the compressor station, and Johanna deGraffenreid, the new Gulf Coast Campaign Coordinator for Gulf Restoration Network. Everybody else got to speak later in the meeting.

David and Ginger Shields on left in audience;
Chris and Deanna Mericle directly in front of camera

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