Police made 10 arrests Wednesday as ongoing “We Are Seneca Lake” climate protests entered their sixth week in central New York, where residents are engaging in a civil disobedience campaign against a planned gas storage facility on the lake’s shores.

At a rally in front of the Reading Town Court on Wednesday night, six of the arraigned protesters plead guilty and vowed to serve jail time rather than pay a fine.

“Protesters who rally under the banner of ‘We Are Seneca Lake’ are apparently prepared to endure the hardships of incarceration in order to send a message that their protest won’t stop until Crestwood stops,” the group said in a statement.

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A total of 83 arrests have now been made as protesters continue their fight to prevent Texas-based energy company Crestwood Midstream from using unstable salt caverns along Seneca Lake to store methane gas, which activists say would threaten the health and livelihood of residents and business-owners in the area. Among their concerns are the project’s potential impact on drinking water for more than 100,000 people, as well as agriculture, tourism, and public health.

“I am not willing to stand by any longer while the air quality deteriorates and the watershed is threatened.” —Paula Fitzsimmons

The project was approved by the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) despite broad public opposition and unanswered questions about the health risks of storing highly pressurized, explosive gas in abandoned salt caverns, the protesters say.