Lawyers for RISE St. James and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade today sent a letter (available here) to St. James Parish Council members advising them that the 2019 land use approval…
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Read the full letter with footnotes, citations, and sources here. May 12, 2021 St. James Parish Council 5800 Hwy. 44 Convent, LA 70723 By email to: linda.hubbell@stjamesparishla.gov …
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Louisiana’s petroleum industry profits from exploiting historic inequalities, showing how slavery laid the groundwork for environmental racism.
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Greenpeace on Tuesday reported that Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco, which are building the controversial Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Louisiana, are among the worst polluters on record.
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On April 12, 2018, in the chambers of the Louisiana State House of Representatives, Rep. Major Thibaut Jr. stepped up to the microphone before the Speaker to introduce seemingly benign…
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Energy Transfer Partners, its subsidiaries including Sunoco, and joint ventures reported 527 hazardous liquids pipeline incidents to federal regulators from 2002 to 2017.
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The companies building the Bayou Bridge Pipeline have spilled 87,273 barrels of hazardous liquids in 527 separate events in the past 15 years, according to a report entitled “Oil and…
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Pipelines owned and operated by the companies that are building the Bayou Bridge Pipeline through Louisiana’s fragile Atchafalaya Basin had 527 hazardous incidents, including spills, between 2002 and 2017, according…
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Phillips 66, the 40-percent owner of the proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline, wants to build another 94-mile crude oil pipeline from what it calls the St. James oil market hub to…
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