Court Reaffirms Bayou Bridge Pipeline to Cut Through the US's Largest River Swamp

[turbinetree]

BY Julie Dermansky DeSmogBlog

PUBLISHED
July 11, 2018

A day before a federal court reaffirmed Bayou Bridge LLC could keep building an oil pipeline through Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin, I stood on a cypress tree stump there, viewing the destroyed trees which pipeline opponents were trying to save.

On both sides of the Bayou Bridge pipeline’s right-of-way, a path of shredded trees cut through the massive river swamp — the nation’s largest — home to abundant wildlife and fishing grounds for wild crawfish.

On July 6, a three-judge panel of the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers properly granted a permit for the 162.5 mile pipeline that cuts through the basin, a National Heritage Area. The decision reverses a lower court’s ruling that temporarily blocked the pipeline’s construction ahead of a hearing challenging the Army Corps decision to issue a permit through the basin.

The controversial pipeline is being built by Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners, the same company behind the Dakota Access pipeline. The Louisiana pipeline will serve as the tail end of a network starting with Dakota Access that will transport crude oil from North Dakota to the Gulf Coast for refining and potential export.

https://truthout.org/articles/court-reaffirms-bayou-bridge-pipeline-to-cut-through-atchafalaya-basin/


This is just fucked up........................

[Phoenix61]

1. What could possibly go wrong?

One really bad idea after another.

[turbinetree]

2. And to top it off its going to be connected to the Dakota pipeline.....................

and if there is a pipeline leak in this area........................

[gratuitous]

3. And when the pipeline springs a leak

Because pipelines always spring leaks, it's what they do, so when this one leaks, will Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC be there to clean it all up? Ha, ha, ha, no. They will first deny that there's a leak at all, then they will concede that yes, that spreading black blight looks like it could be a leak, then they will say it's only a very small leak it just looks bigger because of the terrain, then they will say that maybe it's a weensy bit bigger than originally thought, then someone else will finally get access to the area and figure out that it isn't dozens or hundreds of barrels, but thousands of barrels turning this National Heritage Area into a barren moonscape.

By that time, there will no longer be a corporate entity known as Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC, and the Gret Stet of Louisiana will be looking to the federal government for help cleaning up a huge mess.

[Wwcd]

4. Yup. That's why they're an "LLC".

Protects the Co from lawsuits, ya know, just in case something goes terribly wrong.
Like a massive leak that kills off wildlife & permanently spoils the pristine National Heritage Area.

We've seen this scenario before.

[UnFettered]

5. I don't approve

But pipelines anywhere in south Louisiana are a moot point. I live here and know the area where this is going through. There are no less than 20-30 pipelines that cross that area. The atachafalya basin itself is a oil and gas field and had been since the 1950’s. There is a ton of oil field activity in that area. There’s very few places in this part of the state that are free of this.

Heck just sitting here at my house there’s probably 5 or 6 pipelines within a half mile. The closest one is maybe 400 yards Away.

We made our bed many years ago with this kind of this around here. It is what it is at this point.