{"id":32093,"date":"2018-03-08T09:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32093"},"modified":"2018-03-08T09:10:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:10:20","slug":"bayou-bridge-pipeline-opponents-say-louisiana-governors-office-is-surveilling-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32093","title":{"rendered":"Bayou Bridge Pipeline Opponents Say Louisiana Governor&#8217;s Office Is Surveilling Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2018\/03\/07\/bayou-bridge-pipeline-louisiana-governor-edwards-surveillance\">Bayou Bridge Pipeline Opponents Say Louisiana Governor&#8217;s Office Is Surveilling Them<\/a><\/h3>\n<article class=\"node-12702 node node-blog node-promoted view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/styles\/full_width_blog_image\/public\/blogimages\/LEad%20Photo.jpg?itok=cwQ9PrDZ\" alt=\"Louisiana Bucket Brigade founder Anne Rolfes at a press conference protesting Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards' treatment of anti-pipeline activists.\" width=\"810\" height=\"540\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"new-horizontal-social-bar clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline accused Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards of meeting with representative of the oil and gas industry while refusing to meet with activists and communities affected by the pipeline\u2019s construction. They further allege that the administration has instead placed them under surveillance, pointing to similar treatment of Dakota Access pipeline opponents in North Dakota in 2016. Their claims are based in part on emails and other public records released by the\u00a0state.<\/p>\n<p>The activists brought their grievances to the Democratic governor\u2019s home and office on March 1, holding a press conference in front of the Governor\u2019s Mansion in Baton\u00a0Rouge and then occupying the foyer to his office in the State Capitol for over an\u00a0hour.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>The Bayou Bridge pipeline should be called the John Bel pipeline,\u201d Louisiana Bucket Brigade founder and director Anne Rolfes declared at the press conference. In her view, \u201cany accidents that will happen\u201d related to the pipeline lead back to the Governor. He had the power to stop it, she said, but chose not\u00a0to.<\/p>\n<p>At the press conference,\u00a0representatives from the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">HELP<\/span> Association, 350 New Orleans, L&#8217;eau est La Vie (Water Is Life) camp, and\u00a0the\u00a0Center for Constitutional Rights\u00a0also expressed disappointment in what they described as the state government\u2019s cozy relationship\u00a0with\u00a0industry.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana Bucket Brigade read aloud emails about the Bayou Bridge pipeline from the Edwards administration and industry that were obtained by\u00a0the Center for Constitutional Rights (<span class=\"caps\">CCR<\/span>), a New York-based\u00a0legal and educational\u00a0nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/J46A4511-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"Pastor Harry Joseph of Mt. Triumph Baptist Church in St. James, Louisiana\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Pastor Harry Joseph of the Mount Triumph Baptist Church in St. James, where the pipeline will terminate, speaking at the press conference in Baton\u00a0Rouge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/J46A4549.jpg\" alt=\"Security staff at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade press conference March 1\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Security next to the press conference in Baton\u00a0Rouge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayou Bridge Pipeline Opponents Say Louisiana Governor&#8217;s Office Is Surveilling Them Opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline accused Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards of meeting with representative of the oil and gas industry while refusing to meet with activists and communities affected by the pipeline\u2019s construction. They further allege that the administration has instead placed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[19168,5317,11518,2034,657,746,765],"class_list":["post-32093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-bayou-bridge","tag-desmog-blog","tag-julie-dermansky","tag-louisiana","tag-protests","tag-spying","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32094,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32093\/revisions\/32094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}