Natural Gas Pipeline Research Paper

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All people can be activists from business owners to kids no matter the age. Erica Fernandes was an activist ,she did not want a gas company to run a 36in liquefied natural gas pipeline through her town, because there were safety issues. In 4 years the pipeline idea was dead. There is also another activist, Craig Kielburger who became an activist only at the age of 12 after reading about a boy named Ibaqual Masih who was killed for speaking out.
Alex Libby was only 12 years old when he became an activist against bullying, and made a bullied HQ in school because he wanted to help the kids that were bullied as bad as him, he stated that “6th grade was horrable”. Alex was torchered and had to switch schools because he was getting bullied to bad

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