Early last year, I started hearing from some activists in Massachusetts about a natural

gas project proposed in their town.

One woman in particular really thought this was something I should look into.

Her name is Andrea Onare.

But it took me a good year to understand what was going on.

I never heard of a compressor.

I'd never heard of folk.

I didn't understand the process.

I live in the town of Weymouth, Massachusetts.

It's a coastal town of around 50,000 people in the South Shore region about half an

hour south of Boston.

And in 2015, Spectra Energy, a gas company from Texas, wanted to put what's called a natural

gas compressor right on the water at the north end of town.

Natural gas needs a little help to travel the whole length of a pipeline.

And compressor stations help to sort of goose the gas along the way.

If you've never heard of these things, it's probably because they usually don't put

them in the middle of cities or even heavily populated areas, period.

They're generally placed kind of on the middle of nowhere because they explode sometimes.

The breaking overnight in Green County, an explosion at a compressor station in Sikamore

had firefighters busy battling flames on Hopkins' run road.

We're continuing coverage tonight on an explosion that took place earlier today.

According to the Monahands volunteer fire department, one person has died and two others

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