The pipeline would pass through eight watersheds and many fragile wetlands.
Bayou Bridge Pipeline protesters. CREDIT: Aviva Shen/Diana Ofosu, ThinkProgress
DONALDSONVILLE, LOUISIANA — Tour guides like to call Bayou Lafourche “the longest Main Street in the world.” The sleepy 65-mile stretch of water once lined with slave plantations now passes through dozens of small communities. More than 300,000 people rely on the bayou for drinking water.
Bayou LaFourche also happens to lie along a route of great interest to Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline
Activists gathered on Saturday to float down Bayou LaFourche and tell households along the way what’s about to happen in their backyards.
Often, “people in the communities we’re in don’t know about these projects until they’re already a done deal. They may even already be in the ground or they don’t find out until they start digging a hole to lay the pipe,” said Meg Logue, an organizer with the environmental group 350 Louisiana.
Think Progress – Aviva Shen – 09.15.2017
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