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WATCH: Cops Kick Family Off Their OWN PROPERTY So Big Oil Can Drill

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Brookwood, AL — A Brookwood, Alabama, couple is facing a fight all too familiar to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota, after a Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Deputy served them a restraining order prohibiting them from entering parts of their own property — because Big Oil wants to drill there.

Kenneth and Loretta Kennedy have battled Black Warrior Methane Corporation for years in an attempt to preserve the integrity of their land and stop crews from drilling — but this injunction forbids the couple from interfering with the company's operations — on their own property.

According to local CBS 42, which witnessed the Kennedys being served the injunction, this battle over the 163 acres they purchased 27 years ago stretches all the way back to 2011:

"Black Warrior Methane has been working on a drilling operation beneath the Kennedys' land, which the couple says has ruined the property that stretches across more than 100 acres."

That drilling, they say, has ruined the property — the Kennedys used to draw water from several wells, but Black Warrior Methane's operations have contaminated that supply.

"For 25 years, you had good drinking water," Kenneth Kennedy, jug of murky brown water in hand, told CBS 42, "and all of a sudden it starts smelling like rotten eggs."


 


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