#Repost @cianwestmoreland (@get_repost) ・・・ I’m in southern Louisiana where Energy Transfer Partners is destroying the bayou for oil that will flow from the Dakota Access Pipeline. It’s all for exports. An alarming 50 percent of the world's wetlands have been destroyed in the last 100 years, threatening human welfare and at a time of increasing water scarcity. Wetlands prevent flooding by holding water much like a sponge. By doing so, wetlands help keep river levels normal and filter and purify the surface water. Wetlands accept water during storms and whenever water levels are high. When water levels are low, wetlands slowly release water. Stream channelization, dam construction, discharge of industrial wastes, petrochemicals, municipal sewage and runoff in urban and agricultural areas are all things affecting wetlands everywhere. As it stands, there’s already an area the size of New Jersey off the coast of Louisiana that hypoxic, meaning they are void of enough oxygen to support sea life. The area along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is called “cancer alley” due to the 150 plants and refineries that line the banks. The towns that occupy this region are very poor and mostly black. Energy Transfer Partners has one of the worst records of spills and not properly compensating people who are directly affected by it. There’s people living 30 feet away from it an aren’t even getting compensated for Windows the construction workers shattered on their homes. It’s time for people in America to call bullshit on what is happening to the environments that sustain us. This isn’t making America Great Again, it’s robbing from tomorrow to pay for today. We don’t need more pipelines, we need to put that money in renewable energy to create energy redundancy. Please learn about the different pipeline struggles and how pipelines affect the communities that have them running through their property #waterislife #nobbp #noetp #stopbayoubridgepipeline
