Bayou Bridge Pipeline permit hearing Jan. 12

Claire Taylor
Lafayette Daily Advertiser

 

A public hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 12 on a proposed pipeline that would traverse 11 Louisiana parishes and the Atchafalaya Basin.

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a public notice Monday announcing a public hearing on water quality permits for the Bayou Bridge Pipeline will be at 6 p.m. Jan. 12 in the Oliver Pollock Room of the Galvez Building, 602 North 5th St. in Baton Rouge.

The Bayou Bridge Pipeline will be 162 miles long and 24 inches in diameter. It will cut through Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Acadia, Vermilion, Lafayette, Iberia, St. Martin, Iberville, Ascension, Assumption and St. James parishes.

Opponents that include Louisiana environmental groups collected thousands of signatures calling for the public hearing. They want the Corps of Engineers to conduct an Environmental Impact Study on the pipeline project that would transport crude oil across the state.

Some describe the Bayou Bridge Pipeline project as the final leg of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline that gained national and international attention as Native Americans and others have been protesting for months. The Corps announced Sunday the company will have to find an alternate route to protect drinking water supplies.

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An alligator suns himself on a log in the Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana.