The Byhalia Pipeline is no more!

[SheltieLover]

https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/local/the-byhalia-pipeline-is-no-more/522-a0c83a04-98ba-47ca-8259-617f263f907d

The company announced Friday that they will no longer be pursuing the project.



MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Friday, Byhalia Connection LLC announced it will not be pursuing the construction of the Byhalia Pipeline.

The lower US oil production from the pandemic is the main reason the company decided against the project.

More at link.

[marble falls]

1. Sooner or later petroleum will be what coal is now: a dinosaur on life support.

[SheltieLover]

2. Agreed!

Hopefully, before the planet is dead!

[bullimiami]

4. and what is stupid beyond comprehension is that the energy companies with their vast wealth

spend their money fighting the future rather than owning the energy future and making the profits.

[EYESORE 9001]

9. Some are taking tentative steps

but corporations are shortsighted, some unable to envision anything past the next fiscal quarter. They can’t reconcile what they see as abandonment of their core products and services with developing potentially even more profitable energy sources.

[Hortensis]

3. The pipeline route through black neighborhoods in Memphis

was described as the route "of less resistance." Not quite, as it turned out.

[SheltieLover]

5. Yup!

Strong Dem leadership here, thankfully!

[marble falls]

6. NIMBY is just another white privilege.

[Hortensis]

7. Well, when it's active BLACK neighborhoods it's also NIMBY.

And good for them. And of course, let's remember that, altough it's perfectly understandable that no one wanted a pipeline they feared could leak toxins into their drinking water to run through their neighborhood, many who opposed it organized in groups larger than just their neighborhoods.

[marble falls]

8. It's what I tell my daughters: channel your angry inner black woman. If a neighborhood ...

... needs potholes fixed, drug dealers moved, a traffic lite put in, more police patrols - it's black women who will get it fixed.

Those angry neighborhood residents protected their homes and protected others' homes up and downstream from them. They're heros.

[Hortensis]

10. When women get active... Certainly.