Mike Lamoureux, Sean Trinque, and Paul Ernest
Three hikers set off from Blue Shutters Town Beach in Charlestown Sunday morning, beginning an intense three day, 78 mile hike along Rhode Island’s North-South Trail to raise awareness about Invenergy‘s unneeded $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant planned for Burrillville. Hikers Sean Trinque, Mike Lamoureux, and Paul Ernest were seen off at a beach side ceremony at which former Governor Lincoln Chafee, State Representative Cale Keable (Democrat, District 47, Burrillville), Brown Professor Timmons Roberts and Burrillville Town Councilor Ray Trinque spoke. Also in attendance was Charlestown Town Council Vice President Julie Carroccia, who helped secure the permissions needed for the small ceremony.
The entirety of Rhode Island’s North-South Trail is not well documented, so one of the things the hikers hope to do is some mapping of the trail along the way. The hikers intend to reach the state line at Douglas, Massachusetts Tuesday evening.
Keep Rhode Island Beautiful (KRIP), a non-partisan grassroots community of citizens working to preserve the forests of Burrillville from Invenergy has a hashtag you can use to follow the hikers on their adventures, #kribhike
In their latest tweet, the hikers announced that they had made it to their first stop, Oak Embers Campground:
Our #KRIBhike team made it to the Oak Embers Campground last night. They are gearing up now for the second day of their awareness hike. pic.twitter.com/cR7cVkC8eW
— Keep RI Beautiful (@KeepRIBeautiful) June 5, 2017
You can watch all the video from the kick-off event here:
Lincoln Chafee and Timmons Roberts
Jason Olkowski
Lincoln Chafee and Julie Carroccia
The hikers touched the ocean before starting their hike.
From the beach you can just make out the Block Island Wind Farm
One hour into the hike, a picture in the woods
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