Oil pipeline project clears environmental hurdle
Local challenges remain, however
Storage tanks on Wingo Road sit at the terminus of the Byhalia Connection pipeline in Marshall County in February 2020. The pipeline is expected to carry as much as $21 million in crude oil a day moving from Oklahoma to the Gulf Coast. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Opponents of the proposed pipeline believe local governments can stop the project and nine property owners are still refusing to give Plains All American access to their land.
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Byhalia Connection Memphis Sands Aquifer Southern Environmental Law Center Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District
Blake Fontenay
Blake Fontenay’s 27-year journalism career has taken him to many newspapers in four states. However, he had never returned to work in any of the other cities where he had been before until the opportunity to report for the Daily Memphian presented itself. He covers business for the Daily Memphian.
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