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Article

18 Mar 2018

Author:
Emily Fontenot, American Press (USA)

Bayou Bridge Pipeline gets green light

Construction on the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in the Atchafalaya Basin will soon resume after a temporary stay...A federal appeals court...cleared the line to continue work in the basin, reversing a decision by a lower court three weeks earlier to halt construction while an environmental lawsuit against the company progresses.  The lawsuit...challenges the Army Corps of Engineers’ finding of no significant impact from the project...[E]nvironmental groups plan to continue the suit in hopes that the court will come around to their viewpoint, said head of Atchafalaya Basinkeeper Dean Wilson...He called the decision to lift the ban “completely reckless.”...

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