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Appeals Court Rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company ‘Trampled’ Landowners’ Rights

July 21, 2020 the Center for Constitutional Rights. , , ,
July 16, 2020, Lake Charles, LA – Today, the Third Circuit Court of Appeal for the State of Louisiana ruled that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company (BBP) violated the due process rights of landowners when it constructed an oil pipeline across their property before acquiring the legal rights to do so. The construction – including clearing trees, trenching, and laying pipe – took place across privately owned land in the ecologically sensitive Atchafalaya Basin. The court awarded each of the property owners $10,000 and legal fees.  In its decision, the court wrote:  When BBP consciously ordered construction to begin on this property prior to obtaining a judicial determination of the public and necessary purpose for that taking, it not only trampled Defendants’ due process rights as landowners, it eviscerated the constitutional protections laid out to specifically protect those property rights. 

Energy Transfer Partners’ Security Team Sinks Water Protectors’ Boats

October 20, 2018 By Dahr Jamail, Truthout.org , , ,
Monday morning, an Energy Transfer Partners security team sank two boats carrying approximately 15 water protectors and members of the media at a Bayou Bridge Pipeline construction site. A press release from the L’eau Est La Vie Camp of water protectors about the incident stated that the security boat “passed by at an aggressive speed” and “intentionally” caused a large wake that “swamped and eventually sunk the boats” carrying media and water protectors. While people could have easily drowned in the incident, they luckily managed to swim to shore, where they were assisted by a local fisherman. The water protectors and media members who were with them, including a documentary film crew...

It’s Time To Support The Bayou Bridge Pipeline Fight

August 1, 2018 L'Eau est la Vie. , ,
The battle to stop the Bayou Bridge Pipeline has been a long one, with many successes. Not only did we organize 700 local people to the public comment meetings, we sent around 20,000 public comments in by mail.  We have shown up to support and hold teach-ins in communities from Lake Charles to St James, to Shreveport. We have held art parties, and attended council, church, and civic group meetings. We have canvassed neighborhoods and created letter writing campaigns.  We have created discomfort for impotent politicians, and sleepless nights for greedy corporate thieves.

Urgent Call For Help From Water Is Life Camp

June 10, 2018 Cherri Foytlan, L’eau Est La Vie Camp , ,
WE NEED YOU. I am asking you to make plans to joins us at L’eau Est La Vie Camp ASAP, within the next 6-8 weeks (most effectively in the next four). We’ve been fighting this battle to stop the tail end of DAPL, known as Bayou Bridge. We have won on both a state and federal level, yet the construction continues... The hundreds-of-years-old Cypress trees continue to fall, the water and wildlife cry out from the war zone, and the people in the path are squashed even further beneath the shoes of the oppressor. I realize that it is ceremony time. I realize that there are other important fights out there, and I wouldn’t want anyone to do what they are unable or morally opposed to… but if you ever thought about coming to fight beside me/us, that time is now and honestly like no other.

State Court Declares Bayou Bridge Pipeline’s Coastal Use Permit Illegal

May 7, 2018 By Pastor Harry Joseph, 5th District H.E.L.P. Association, Genevieve Butler, Dustin Renaud, Gulf Restoration Network,  Dean Wilson, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, Cherri Foytlin, Bold Louisiana, Elizabeth Livingston de Calderon, Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, for Popular Resistance ,
Louisiana’s 23rd Judicial District Court has ruled that the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources(DNR) violated the Coastal Use Guidelines when it issued Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC a Coastal Use Permit, allowing the company to construct and operate a crude oil pipeline through Louisiana’s Coastal Zone. The court ruled in favor of the Petitioners in the case, Pastor Harry Joseph, Genevieve Butler, H.E.L.P. association, the Gulf Restoration Network, the Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, and Bold Louisiana, who argued that the DNR illegally failed to apply critical regulations under the Coastal Use Guidelines and failed to meet the agency’s duty as public trustee over the natural resources of the state. The Petitioners are represented by the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic.

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