Amos Cloud used to operate heavy construction equipment for a living — working on crews that laid utility pipes underground.

A group of climate activists from Southern Oregon Rising Tide, concerned community members, and business leaders members interrupted a meeting at the Medford Chamber of Commerce to demand the organization stop taking money from the Canadian fossil fuel corporation proposing the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal and Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline.

In September, the trio were jailed after protesting against the development of the UK’s first shale gas wells since 2011 by the company Cuadrilla. Their crime was to climb on to a trio of lorries, delaying equipment being delivered to the hugely controversial – and vehemently opposed – Preston New Road site in Lancashire.