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Atchafalaya Basin Endangered.
CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, Kelcy Warren, gave over $100,000 to Trump’s campaign.
News Release from:
“350 Louisiana, DisasterMap.net, Louisiana Bucket Brigade
February 6, 2017
For Immediate release
Contact: Anne Rolfes, Founding Director, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, (504) 452-4909, anne@labucketbrigade.org
Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco: 69 Accidents in Two Years
Drinking Water Polluted by ETP Spills What and when: Tele press conference about these accidents, 10 am CT
Dial in: (949) 229-4400 Access Code: 9341354
Link to webinar: http://anne39.enterthemeeting.com/m/8J8X8U9P
Registration required
For a copy of the report visit http://www.labucketbrigade.org
(New Orleans)—A new report issued today shows a disturbing pattern with pipeline and other infrastructure accidents. Data from National Response Center (NRC) reports revealed that Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) and its Sunoco subsidiaries have had 69 accidents in a two year span.
Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco are the companies responsible for the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, the proposed Trans Pecos Pipeline in Texas and the proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline that would extend from Nederland, Texas to St. James Parish, Louisiana. As local officials, students, crawfishermen, moms, dads and grandparents prepare to testify against the Bayou Bridge Pipeline at a Department of Natural Resources hearing in Louisiana this week, new information about the troubled parent company’s accident record was made public.
“Sunoco and ETP accidents stretch from Texas to Massachusetts,” said Dr. Ezra Boyd, a geographer with DisasterMap.net who conducted the research. “While these accidents cover a large area of the map, the Bayou Bridge pipeline would put an entirely new area at risk: south central Louisiana, including the Atchafalaya Basin.”
The report released today compiles the information reported to the NRC – the federal point of contact for oil spills and industrial accidents. Pipelines were the source of 51% of the accidents. In Louisiana, the industry argument for the Bayou Bridge Pipeline is that pipelines are safer. “The oil industry and the elected officials they’ve bought off are claiming that pipelines are safer despite the facts,” said Anne Rolfes, Founding Director of the Louisiana. “What we know is that Energy Transfer Partners had 35 pipeline accidents in two years. There’s nothing safe about that.” The Bayou Bridge Pipeline would slice through South Louisiana’s vulnerable coastline and wetlands to transport oil slated for export.
The accidents happened primarily in Texas and along the east coast. The reports show that eight people were injured in the accidents and that evacuations were called. Three drinking water sources – the Delaware River (PA, NJ), The Schuylkill River (PA) and the Red River (LA) were among the water bodies polluted. The Standing Rock Sioux have objected to the Dakota Access Pipeline because of potential pollution to their drinking water source. The Bayou Bridge Pipeline threatens the Vermillion River and Bayou Lafourche, two drinking water sources in south Louisiana.
Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco have a poor track record for safety and human rights. Over 300 Louisianans opposed the Bayou Bridge Pipeline at a public hearing last month. A public hearing on February 8th is also expected to have hundreds in attendance.
“Energy Transfer Partners’ records contradict their claim that pipelines are a safer way of transporting oil,” said Renate Heurich of 350 Louisiana. “Pipelines make transporting tar sands cheaper, thus stimulating dirty tar sands extraction despite low oil prices. The real question is: Why do we still invest in more pipeline infrastructure when we urgently need to invest in sustainable alternative energy sources?”” http://labucketbrigade.org/blog/new-report-69-accidents-bayou-bridge-company-etp
(Emphasis our own.)
Report here: http://labucketbrigade.org/sites/default/files/ETP%202015%202016%20Accidents%20Full%20Report.pdf
Bayou Bridge Teach In Materials: http://labucketbrigade.org/sites/default/files/Bayou%20Bridge%20Teach%20In%20Materials.pdf
Trump Financial Disclosures including Energy Transfer Partners, owner of DAPL, on pdf p. 37: https://ia801907.us.archive.org/32/items/TrumpFinancialDisclosures/Trump%20Financial%20Disclosure%202016.pdf
Kelcy Warren, CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, 100,000$ to Trump Victory PAC: http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?201607159020646897
Plus another $3,000 to Trump for President (ENERGY TRANSFER EQUITY CHAIRMAN AND CEO TO TRUMP, DONALD J VIA DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT, INC. 06/29/2016 $2700 plus $300. WARREN, KELCY L DALLAS TX 75225 ) http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/qind/ Kelcy is a man but listed at FEC as MS. Nonetheless he is CEO of Energy Transfer Partners and is listed as Chair-CEO of Energy Transfer Equity on the form.
From the Army Corps of Engineers:
“The proposed 162.52-mile Bayou Bridge Pipeline project is located in Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Acadia, Vermilion, Lafayette, Iberia, St. Martin, Iberville, Ascension, Assumption, and St. James parishes Louisiana. The two proposed pump stations are located in Jefferson Davis and St. Martin parishes. The project is located in the following eight watersheds: Lower Calcasieu, Mermentau, Vermilion, Bayou Teche, Atchafalaya, Lower Grand, West Central Louisiana Coastal, and East Central Louisiana Coastal.
Proposed construction of this project requires a Department of the Army permit under Section 404 of the Clean water Act (P.L. 95-17.) The decision whether to issue a permit will be based on an evaluation of the probable impacts, including cumulative impacts of the proposed activity on the public interest. This decision will reflect the national concern for both protection and utilization of important resources.
This web page is dedicated to keeping the public informed about the permitting process and the status of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline application. Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.
Click to access MAP%20BayouBridgePipeline_AI_203160.pdf
“USACE is not the lead agency for water quality. In Louisiana, the Department of Environmental Quality has the regulatory authority for air and water quality under the Clean Water Act and will conduct the necessary evaluations. Before USACE can make a permitting decision, the applicant must receive a Water Quality Certification from LADEQ. Failure by the applicant to obtain this certification could prevent rendering of a final DA permit decision” http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/bayoubridge/
Top photo:
“Team New Orleans, US Army Corps of Engineers
Atch Egrets-2-LL
Two Egrets rest on the limbs of a cypress in the Atchafalaya flood basin (Photographer Lane Lefort, Courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
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