{"id":3302,"date":"2014-12-20T09:26:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2014-12-20T09:26:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:26:10","slug":"breaking-fracking-permit-issued-in-louisianas-st-tammany-parish-desmogblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3302","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Fracking Permit Issued in Louisiana’s St. Tammany Parish | DeSmogBlog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breaking: Fracking Permit Issued in Louisiana’s St. Tammany Parish | DeSmogBlog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR<\/span>) issued a\u00a0drilling permit<\/a>for Helis Oil and Gas today, bringing the company one step closer to realizing its ambition to frack in St. Tammany\u00a0Parish.<\/p>\n

Public outcry against fracking in St. Tammany Parish, an area known for its pristine water and picturesque wetlands 40 miles east of New Orleans, was not enough to sway the state agency. But the public’s input has led to unprecedented conditions being attached to the\u00a0permit.<\/p>\n

During a\u00a0public hearing on the permit<\/a>\u00a0in November, representatives for Helis Oil made promises about measures above and beyond current regulations, including air and water monitoring. Lisa Jordan, legal counsel for the town of Abita Springs, asked if Helis would make those conditions legally binding during her cross examination.\u00a0The representatives claimed none of them had the authority to make the conditions binding, that only a Helis Oil employee could do\u00a0that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe level of disdain the company has for the citizens has been fairly clear all along,\u201d Jordan told DeSmogBlog. But she was still surprised no one from the company came to the meeting. When she asked, \u201cIs anyone here from Helis Oil?,\u201d there was no\u00a0answer.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/a>…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Breaking: Fracking Permit Issued in Louisiana’s St. Tammany Parish | DeSmogBlog. The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) issued a\u00a0drilling permitfor Helis Oil and Gas today, bringing the company one step closer to realizing its ambition to frack in St. Tammany\u00a0Parish. Public outcry against fracking in St. Tammany Parish, an area known for its pristine […]<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[331,2034,2035,2032],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-fracking","tag-louisiana","tag-st-tammany-parish","tag-wetlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302","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=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3303,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions\/3303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}