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NO OIL IN OUR SOIL

5,419 Comments

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Ai Shimatsu
5 years ago

No oil pleasre.

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adam cage
5 years ago

stop the Byhalia Connection pipeline through Memphis,TN

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Andria Miller
5 years ago

More oil profits at the expense of black and brown lives.

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Melvin Flores
5 years ago

I want our water to stay the best and the most clean!!!!

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Ashley Peters
5 years ago

Save the watet

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Keashun Slater
5 years ago

No pipeline

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Jessica Lewis
5 years ago

No oil in our water!

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Heady
5 years ago

Nothing makes me sadder than seeing our beautiful city’s natural resources be threatened by unnecessary pollution.

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Josh Threlkeld
5 years ago

I like my tap water

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Marquise Dyson
5 years ago

Save the water!

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Ashley Dyson
5 years ago

Save Memphis water

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Brichanise Terrell
5 years ago

Memphis has enough problems don’t make more Romans 10:9 If you declare with your mouth,Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved

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Victoria Cleveland
5 years ago

Stop the pipeline

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Kendalyn
5 years ago

1. Don’t ruin our water period. 2. Another example of systemic racism.

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Sarah Bodily
5 years ago

Memphians DO NOT want this pipeline!!! #SaveOurAquifer

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Jessica Mickey
5 years ago

Don’t kill us

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Victoria
5 years ago

This is a very bad idea, protect our city’s precious drinking water. No more pollution!!!

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Timothy Walker
5 years ago

I love our water

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Jacky Wong
5 years ago

No oil on our soil!

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Scott Shelton
5 years ago

Dear Memphis City Council, The undersigned organizations are writing today to encourage this council to support Councilman Edmund Ford, Sr. and Councilman Dr. Jeff Warren’s Resolution Opposing the Byhalia Connection Pipeline. We believe that this council’s vote to oppose the Pipeline is pivotal to the health and well being of this community, our country and our climate. We believe you all have the power to uphold the values of justice deeply rooted in our democratic system and in the hopes of the people of Memphis. This project is a manifestation of the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, systemic poverty, and ecological devastation. This upcoming Tuesday, we believe that collectively this body can decide to disrupt these systems that have plagued our communities, our cities, and our nation for too long. This proposed crude oil pipeline funded by the fossil fuel corporations Valero Energy Corporation and Plains All American is burdening the people of Memphis and Mississippi, and pushing our climate closer to the point of no return, for the profit motives of corporations. It is past time to put people over corporate gains and to hear the cries of the people in communities across the world. In Memphis, it seems the cry is clear: “No Oil in Our Soil.” This crude oil pipeline is a textbook case of environmental racism, injustice, and environmental degradation. In targeting the Southwest Memphis neighborhood, and the greater Memphis area, this project hopes to force low-wealth Black communities to carry this billion-dollar corporation’s oil barrels on their backs with no public benefit. In the US, between 1986 and 2013, there have been nearly 8,000 incidents of pipeline leaks (around 300 per year). If this pipeline were to leak it would contaminate the local aquifer, which provides drinking water to Memphis and the North Mississippi counties of DeSoto and Marshall, with carcinogenic crude oil. Not only is the Byhalia Connection Pipeline plan proposing