Byhalia Connection Oil Pipeline

Take Action Now

• ACTION: SIGN THE PETITION: No Oil in Our Soil (via Breach Collective, Protect Our Aquifer and SELC)
• ACTION: SIGN THE LETTER: Byhalia Crude Oil Pipeline Opposition Sign On Letter
• ACTION: JOIN & SHARE LOCAL ACTIONS: Memphis Community Against the Pipeline (MCAP) group on Facebook

Frontline/Local & Opposition Groups

• Landowner Organizing:
  • Memphis Community Against the Pipeline
    • Memphis Community Against Pollution
  • Boxtown Neighborhood Association
  • Attorneys representing Black landowners
  • Memphis law firm of Burch, Porter & Johnson, PLLC
• Protect Our Aquifer (Facebook)
• Memphis Has the Power
• Tennessee Chapter Sierra Club

National Opposition Groups

• Southern Environmental Law Center
• Breach Collective
• Poor People’s Campaign & Rev. Dr. William Barber II
• Pipeline Fighters Hub / Bold Alliance
• Sierra Club 
• 350.org

Political

• April 2021: Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland calls Byhalia Pipeline an “unacceptable risk” to Memphis Sand aquifer, will support local efforts to regulate the proposed Byhalia pipeline, “after careful review and detailed conversations with environmental scientists” by his administration. [source]
• April 2021: Rev. Dr. William Barber II & Poor People’s Campaign rally in Memphis
• March 2021: Former Vice President Al Gore attends Memphis rally, calls Byhalia pipeline “reckless, racist and a rip-off”
• February 2021: Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN09)  sent a letter to Pres. Biden urging him to revoke NWP 12
  • Avenue to target Biden more directly / inside + outside
  • Feb. 5, 2021: Army Corps replies to Cohen with letter
• Southern Environmental Law Center memo to Biden
• State is conservative; efforts to affect city-wide pipeline-related permits, right to drill under roads, etc.