Peekskill Protester Dragged from FERC Meeting: VIDEO

The Safe Energy Rights Group President Nancy Vann was dragged from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's meeting Thursday.

Vann is also a member of ResistAIM and one of the first people to try obstructing the construction of Spectra Energy's Algonquin pipeline expansion, on property she owns in Cortlandt, in November 2015.

SEnRG posted the encounter on YouTube.

A press release from ResistAIM said, "A group of concerned New York State (NYS) residents, led by Nancy Vann - a Peekskill landowner whose property was taken by Spectra for pipeline construction - stood up in the monthly public meeting of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to ask the commissioners why they have ignored NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo’s urgent request to immediately halt construction on Spectra Energy's Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) project."

According to the press release," In a further display of their disregard for public safety, FERC’s security assaulted the first speaker, Nancy Vann, forcefully removing her, and knocking her to the ground when she demanded access to the cane she needs to walk. The entire commission watched blithely during this assault and then as each of the next 12 New Yorkers was removed when they stood to ask FERC to listen to Governor Cuomo, halt construction of the AIM Pipeline, and protect more than 20 million people."

FERC rejected opponents' arguments against the pipeline in a February ruling.

Soon afterward, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked FERC to temporarily halt the project while his administration does a safety analysis of the pipeline past the Indian Point Nuclear Plant. FERC has not publicly responded.