'Monday Night Football' Protest: Anti-Fracking Banner Unfurled in Stadium
Source: NBC News
Fire crews were called in to retrieve two activists who rappelled from the press box of Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, and unfurled a protest banner Monday night during the nationally televised National Football League game between the Carolina Panthers and the Indianapolis Colts.
The odd spectacle highlighted opposition to a liquefied natural gas project in Lusby, Maryland — a state in which neither of the two teams plays. The project makes use of a controversial production technique called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," which opponents say is inadequately regulated and environmentally hazardous.
But Charlotte is home to Bank of America — the target of the banner, which read "BOA Dump Dominion." It was the work of We Are Cove Point, a Maryland activist group that since 2013 has fought construction of the Cove Point liquefied natural gas export terminal in Lusby by Dominion Midstream Partners of Richmond, Virginia, which has received financing from Bank of America and other institutions.
Kelly Caravan of We Are Cove Point told NBC News on Monday night that the project "will create a lot of environmental problems and also a lot of financial problems that will hit American consumers very hard."
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