Lockdown To Stop The Bayou Bridge Pipeline MAURICE, LA – On the morning of April 18th a water protector locked herself into a cement filled barrel placed in the trench of a horizontal directional drill on a construction site of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Over a dozen more water protectors from L’eau est La Vie […]
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Federal Judge Blocks Construction Of Bayou Bridge Pipeline
Federal Judge Blocks Construction Of Bayou Bridge Pipeline Above Photo: COURTESY OF EMILY KASIK. A community meeting in Napoleonville, Louisiana, on the Bayou Bridge pipeline on Feb. 8, 2017, where residents voiced opposition to the project. Baton Rouge, LA — Federal District Court Judge Shelly Dick halted the construction of the controversial Bayou Bridge pipeline across […]
‘Water Is Life’ Camp Resist Energy Transfer Partners Louisiana Bayou Bridge Pipeline
L’EAU EST LA VIE CAMP, LOUISIANA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has just granted a permit to a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) for the Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP) in Louisiana. The Corps neglected to perform an environmental impact review of the pipeline project that opponents say will put local communities, indigenous […]
Resistance Grows To New Louisiana Bayou Bridge Pipeline
Louisiana groups say they are fed up with environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry and that the very least the state should allow a third-party assessment of what’s at stake before a proposed pipeline is allowed to be built. They also want Louisiana to move to renewable energy, which is far safer and less […]