text: Updated: 06/27/2014 06:33:45 AM EDT
  On Sunday, July 6, the Richmond group is scheduled to step off, walking roads that roughly follow the proposed pipeline's 4-mile route through town and spreading awareness about the proposal through leaflets and word-of-mouth.
  After the 4-mile Richmond leg, the walk picks up in Pittsfield, Lenox and several more Berkshire County towns, before continuing on to Franklin County and the towns of Ashfield, Conway, Deerfield, Shelburne Falls and Montague.
  On July 30, a group of march participants will gather in Boston Common and present a petition asking Patrick to withdraw support for any new major natural-gas imports or interstate pipelines, as well as the electric rate tariff. That tax is the means by which the public is made to pay the cost of the fossil fuel infrastructure, organizers say.
  The pipeline proposal requires federal and state approvals. The earliest construction date for the $2.75 billion to $3.75 billion project would be April 2017, with completion by November 2018, according to Kinder Morgan, Tennessee Gas' parent company.
  The road won't be an easy one. A Conservation Law Foundation report released Tuesday censured the New England States Committee on Energy and the states themselves for "stonewalling" its public records requests for tens of thousands of documents relating to planned gas-pipeline and electric-transmission infrastructure, for which the public will foot the bill.