There are 11 article(s) tagged Valero:

• November 2022

  • South Memphis community garden celebrates $250K expansion

    “Many years ago, this area today where we are was a combination of 30 blighted and vacant lots and it is now a place of growth, hope and celebration,” Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said.

    By Alicia Davidson November 16, 2022

• July 2021

  • Artist weighs in on pipeline controversy with billboard

    A billboard depicting a young girl holding melting ice cream now stands on Interstate 55, across from the Valero refinery in South Memphis. 

    By Rob Moore July 09, 2021

  • Plains All American cancels Byhalia Connection Pipeline

    The announcement comes ahead of the end of a two-month truce on the controversial project as well as efforts by local leaders to slow it down and stop it.

    By Bill Dries July 03, 2021

• May 2021

  • Opinion: Pipeline could threaten our clean drinking water

    ‘I now understand the science of groundwater aquifers and the complex of laws and regulations that keep an aquifer healthy,’ says geologist Deborah Baker Carington. ‘I also understand the very real risks an oil pipeline spill would pose to the region’s most precious resource, the Memphis aquifer.’

    By Deborah Baker Carington May 02, 2021

• March 2021

  • Al Gore joins Byhalia Connection Pipeline fight in southwest Memphis

    Former Vice President Al Gore joined with Memphis residents fighting construction of the Byhalia Connection Pipeline, which he called a “reckless, racist, rip-off.”

    By Daja E. Henry March 14, 2021

  • Hearings set for Byhalia Connection pipeline lawsuits

    One of the hearings scheduled for next month will be on the issue of whether an oil pipeline company has a right under state law to use eminent domain proceedings to gain access to property it needs to build the pipeline. 

    By Blake Fontenay March 08, 2021

• February 2021

  • Pipeline’s route faces increased challenges

    Local resistance to the Byhalia Connection oil pipeline project has been gaining momentum recently. And with a new president in the White House, the project may face tougher scrutiny from federal regulators as well.

    By Blake Fontenay February 08, 2021

• January 2021

  • Pipeline donates $1M to Mid-South organizations

    The proposed pipeline running through portions of Shelby County would connect two existing crude oil pipelines running from the Midwest to the Gulf Coast.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff January 04, 2021

• January 2020

  • Westwood residents get details on proposed oil pipeline

    Landowners affected by the pipeline could expect an offer that is above fair market value, would still own the property and would have few restrictions, but could not build a permanent structure on the land.

    By Elle Perry January 24, 2020

  • Public meetings look at planned crude oil pipeline impacts, route

    Public meetings about the proposed crude oil pipeline called the Byhalia Connection are scheduled in Memphis and North Mississippi Jan. 21-Feb. 8.

    By Wayne Risher January 12, 2020

• December 2019

  • Memphis Child Advocacy Center receives funding from Valero

    The Memphis Child Advocacy Center recently received a grant of $40,000 from the Valero Benefit for Children.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff December 18, 2019