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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2701667" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>Here's an interesting story from the Trans-Pecos pipeline protest.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/The-short-and-disruptive-life-of-pipeline-10970399.php" target="_blank">How key pipeline protester dodged prison while leading double life</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=business%2Fenergy&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Pete+Hefflin%22" target="_blank">Pete Hefflin</a> was a leader of the Texas environmental movement. He fought against pipeline companies, decried corporate greed, and helped open the largest protest camp in West Texas aimed at blocking the Trans-Pecos pipeline.</p><p></p><p>But as Hefflin talked about protecting sensitive natural resources for the future, he was hiding his past. This week, at a pipeline protest in Presidio County, sheriff's deputies arrested him, fingerprinted him and confirmed that they had in custody not Pete Hefflin, but <a href="http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=business%2Fenergy&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Pedro+Rabago+Gutierrez%22" target="_blank">Pedro Rabago Gutierrez</a>, a man arrested and imprisoned multiple times in California for serious crimes - rape and drug dealing among them - before fleeing the state at least 10 years ago as a wanted man.</p><p></p><p>The arrest stunned protesters at the camp, where he was the head of security, and sent the environmental groups with which the man worked into damage control.</p><p></p><p></p><p>"He was part of our circle. He was part of our family," said <a href="http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=business%2Fenergy&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Frankie+Orona%22" target="_blank">Frankie Orona</a>, executive director of the <a href="http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=business%2Fenergy&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Society+of+Native+Nations%22" target="_blank">Society of Native Nations</a>, a San Antonio-based environment and American Indian advocacy group at which Gutierrez was a member of the board of directors</p><p></p><p>The <a href="http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=business%2Fenergy&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Sierra+Club%22" target="_blank">Sierra Club</a> said it, too, was surprised by the news .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2701667, member: 12952"] Here's an interesting story from the Trans-Pecos pipeline protest. [URL="http://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/The-short-and-disruptive-life-of-pipeline-10970399.php"]How key pipeline protester dodged prison while leading double life[/URL] [URL='http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=business%2Fenergy&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Pete+Hefflin%22']Pete Hefflin[/URL] was a leader of the Texas environmental movement. He fought against pipeline companies, decried corporate greed, and helped open the largest protest camp in West Texas aimed at blocking the Trans-Pecos pipeline. But as Hefflin talked about protecting sensitive natural resources for the future, he was hiding his past. This week, at a pipeline protest in Presidio County, sheriff's deputies arrested him, fingerprinted him and confirmed that they had in custody not Pete Hefflin, but [URL='http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=business%2Fenergy&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Pedro+Rabago+Gutierrez%22']Pedro Rabago Gutierrez[/URL], a man arrested and imprisoned multiple times in California for serious crimes - rape and drug dealing among them - before fleeing the state at least 10 years ago as a wanted man. The arrest stunned protesters at the camp, where he was the head of security, and sent the environmental groups with which the man worked into damage control. "He was part of our circle. He was part of our family," said [URL='http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=business%2Fenergy&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Frankie+Orona%22']Frankie Orona[/URL], executive director of the [URL='http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=business%2Fenergy&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Society+of+Native+Nations%22']Society of Native Nations[/URL], a San Antonio-based environment and American Indian advocacy group at which Gutierrez was a member of the board of directors The [URL='http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=business%2Fenergy&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Sierra+Club%22']Sierra Club[/URL] said it, too, was surprised by the news . [/QUOTE]
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