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Singing in protest. Dozens of people gathered early Monday morning to take a stand against the Vermont Gas pipeline.“There are many concerns, but first and foremost, we need to get off of fossil fuels,” said Jane Palmer with Rising Tide Vermont.Watch this storyRising Tide helped organize the group, that attempted to halt progress at a Williston work site.“We're just putting speed bumps in the road. We're doing everything we can to slow it down, stop it, be a pain in the butt,” Palmer said.Two protesters attached themselves to an excavator. One was handcuffed and hauled away by police. Three others were also arrested.The other, with his arms fastened inside welded metal pipes, was not so easily removed.“When they're taken into custody, if they're a Vermont resident, they'll end up with a citation,” Williston police officer Keith Gonyeau said.Just up the road on Route 2A, another group of protesters blocked the entrance to the construction site in Williston.“We've been through a lot of processes with state agencies in the last three-and-a-half years. Those processes are totally broken. So the only thing to do now is civil disobedience,” protester Beth Thompson said.Beyond the entrance, more demonstrators strapped themselves to equipment.“We have a piece of pipe with a lot of stuff around it and we are clipped into the middle of it,” protester Karen Bixler said.The natural gas pipeline is slated to run 41 miles from Williston to Middlebury.Vermont Gas officials have long said that the project would be complete this year, but now, it's not clear if it will happen on time or within the $154 million budget.“This is a very complex and challenging project with a lot of moving pieces,” Vermont Gas Systems spokeswoman Beth Parent said.But for protesters like Jane Palmer, it’s pretty simple.“This pipeline is wrong. It needs to be stopped, and we're not going to stop,” Palmer said.