Byhalia Connection said it will no longer pursue plans to build a 49-mile underground artery that would have linked two major U.S. oil pipelines while running through wetlands and under poor, predominantly Black neighbourhoods in south Memphis.
Byhalia Connection also would have run through well fields above the Memphis Sand Aquifer, which provides slightly sweet drinking water to the Memphis area. Environmentalists, activist groups, lawyers, property owners, national and local elected officials, and even former Vice President Al Gore opposed the project. They feared an oil spill would have endangered waterways and possibly contaminated the water being pumped out of the ground through wells located along the planned route.
Justin J. Pearson, a leader of the Memphis Community Against the Pipeline activist group, called the decision "an extraordinary testament to what Memphis and Shelby County can do when citizens build power toward justice." Project officials had reached deals with most landowners on the planned pipeline's route to use their land for construction. A few holdouts were taken to court.
No vote has been held on the ordinance, which was one of several strategies meant to put public pressure on Plains and Valero.
Sad news, pipelines are still the safest way to move the oil, now it will be on trucks and trains pumping out 4x the pollution.
Tennessee has nothing to do with Canada. This is just click bait
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