Shelly Dick

(SP) — The Louisiana Bucket Brigade is an environmental justice organization that advocates for communities most impacted by the state’s oil refineries and chemical plants. It has fought construction of Energy Transfer Partners’ Bayou Bridge oil pipeline, and newly released documents indicate activists were targets of surveillance. The environmental justice organization and the Center for Constitutional Rights […]

(TMU) — In a victory for environmentalists, conservationists, fishing operations, residents in flood-prone areas, and even neotropical migratory birds, a federal judge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, halted construction on Energy Transfer Partners’ Bayou Bridge Pipeline project slated to span the heart of Louisiana’s ecologically-delicate Atchafalaya Basin. Although all permits for the project had been granted, allowing construction to begin in late […]