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Different Gore, Different Capitol, Identical Message

WFSU | By Jim Ash

Published January 23, 2017 at 2:09 PM EST

Protesters lined the steps of the Old Capitol with anti-Sabal Palm Pipeline messages on Monday. They were joined by Karenna Gore, eldest daughter of former Vice President Al Gore.

The daughter of former Vice President Al Gore joined environmentalists on the steps of Florida’s Old Capitol Monday to protest the Sabal Trail pipeline.

In addition to being the eldest daughter of the famous climate change activist, Karenna Gore is an attorney and director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary. ]

Gore says she wants to reform a political system that no longer reflects society’s most important values.

“I think the pipeline represents, first of all, the ability of an outside entity to come in to a community and use it simply as a resource and that’s not fair to the people who live here.”

The 515-mile, 3 billion-dollar pipeline links Central and North Florida to Georgia and Alabama and is a joint project of Spectra Energy Partners, NextEra Energy and Duke Energy. Protesters say the benefits don’t outweigh threats to drinking and groundwater supplies.