“I really like how this is a people-powered movement. We’re not seasoned campaign volunteers, but we're doing this because we really believe in it.”

The odds that Oberlin, a small town making up only a few miles of NEXUS’s 256 mile route, will be subject to a pipeline spill are not likely; yet the odds that NEXUS will spill, or leak, or blast open, at some point in its lifetime, are almost certain.

“I ache for these people,” she said, “and I ache for this land. But we are educated, we’re motivated, we’re organized, we give a shit, and we’re not backing down! Because somebody taught us what you can do when you don’t back down.”