Alex Cohen is in St. James Parish, Louisiana.
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Since day one L'eau Est La Vie Camp - No Bayou Bridge has been echoing the calls from the people of St. James demanding that they be given a evacuation route.
St. James is a predominantly African American free slave community, which is surrounded by tank farms, refineries, and other fossil fuel industry infrastructure. Currently only one road leads in and out of St. James and in the event of an inevitable pipeline disaster, residents could be trapped.
This road use to be used by the public as another way out until Marathon Pipeline LLC stole this land which now houses over 100 oil storage tankers and blocked the road with this gate and private security. The #BayouBridgePipeline now runs through this land and community as well before ending at its final destination. Making an already dangerous situation, explosive.
In order to secure an evacuation route for St. James all Governor John Bel Edwards has to do is give this road back to the people, instead he spends the majority of his time bent over for the oil & petrochemical Industry.
Environmental racism lives here.
CALL LOUISIANA GOVERNOR EDWARDS NOW – demand that he give St James an evacuation route: http://nobbp.org/call/
