Protesters occupied the construction site of the North Brooklyn Fracked Gas Pipeline, deemed racist as it was routed to go through black-majority neighborhoods. Demonstrators stopped construction at Williamsburg, and it does not appear as though construction will be able to continue as normal for a long time.
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