The Mobile Area Water and Sewer System Board may have decided to continue opposing a crude oil pipeline through the watershed of its reservoir, or it may not have, according to Mobile Bay Sierra Club Conservation Chair David Underhill. At the end of its meeting on Feb. 10, the board and its lawyers withdrew into…
By David Underhill – For months the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System board and community groups have been resisting an attempt by Plains company to run a crude oil pipeline through the watershed of the reservoir supplying metro Mobile’s water. A recent defeat in the county courthouse confronts MAWSS with a choice about continuing…
By Glynn Wilson – The fight over an oil pipeline through the drinking water supply for Mobile, Alabama has landed in court. Environmental groups are challenging a permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Plains Southcap, LLC pipeline routed through the Big Creek Lake watershed. The lawsuit filed Friday in Federal…
By Glynn Wilson – Ceding to public pressure against a proposed crude oil pipeline through the watershed for the only drinking water supply serving the citizens of Mobile, Alabama, the state Public Service Commission has announced plans to conduct a “public proceeding” in Mobile on October 28 from 1-3 p.m. in the Mobile Government Plaza…
By Julie Dermansky – It took a while for the Alabama public to understand that their state is being transformed into a tar sands Mecca. Proposals for rail and pipeline transport and tar sands storage facilities were first presented in 2010, and by 2012, most were rubber stamped with no public input. But in 2013,…
Mobile area residents are calling on the Mobile City Council to pass a resolution to protect the health, safety and economic well-being of local residents and natural resources by keeping tar sands oil out of the city. Tar sands oil, also referred to by industry as “bitumen” or “heavy crude,” must be diluted with highly…
