What does home mean to you? For me, it’s the peepers singing (very loudly) on spring nights. Or the way I know all the sides of the bowl of mountains that surround my house. Or the way the sun sets at 4:30 in the afternoon on cold December days. Really, think. Close your eyes even. Where is home?
For Carah Ronan, home is Laurel, MT. Home is a place where everyone knows everyone, where the Yellowstone and Clarks Fork rivers converge into a haven for wild animals, and where farming is a way of life.
Unfortunately, her home is now being torn up by the utility company we share, NorthWestern Energy. NorthWestern Energy, the main utility in Montana, is trying to build a new methane gas plant in Laurel, and with that, comes a new pipeline.
You’ll hear from Carah and learn more about Laurel, grassroots organizing, and perhaps above all — the lengths that major corporations will go to to gaslight and silence communities. But wherever we are, we must keep fighting, because as Carah says, “Your community is worth it.”
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