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SheltieLover

(80,352 posts)
Wed Mar 10, 2021, 09:15 PM Mar 2021

Don't take my land! Property owners are fighting back against Byhalia Pipeline to keep their land [View all]

https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/investigations/i-team/property-owners-fight-byhalia-pipeline-over-land/522-f1da9e3a-0e12-488e-a109-8696cbd84b5a

A lawsuit filed against the property owners seeks to take a portion of their land for easements to construct the pipeline.

Don't take my land! That is what about a dozen property owners in South Memphis are saying to the Byhalia Pipeline company.

The company wants to build a pipeline from the Valero plant in downtown Memphis, through parts of the predominately Black neighborhoods of Boxtown, Westwood, and Whitehaven, and then into Mississippi.

More at link. This pipeline will threaten the Memphis Aquifer, one of the purest in the county! There are several pharmaceutical companies in the Memphis area because of the purity of the water!

This is also a racially charged proposal because south Memphis is largely comprised of Black residents!

Please sign the petition to stop this nightmare!

Here is link to petition to stop this repuke project:

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/no-oil-in-our-soil
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