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Louisiana Approved the Marais Pipeline Coastal Use Permit without Legally Required Impacts Analysis
Today, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Fisherman Involved in Sustaining our Heritage (FISH), and Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in the 38th Judicial District in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, challenging the coastal use permit issued by the Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy (LDCE) for the proposed Marais Pipeline project.
The Marais Pipeline would consist of approximately 44 miles of 48-inch diameter gas pipeline and associated aboveground facilities through coastal Louisiana. It would fill or disturb more than 800 acres of wetlands and water bottoms in Calcasieu Parish and Cameron Parish, in a coastal region that is critical for the region’s climate resilience, as wetlands provide an essential barrier for local communities against increasingly strong hurricanes and flooding associated with climate change. Specifically, the pipeline would provide 1.9 billion cubic feet (bcf) per day of methane gas to the CP2 LNG terminal, which is the climate-change causing greenhouse gas (GHG) equivalent of 10 coal-fired power plants or nearly 9 million gasoline-powered passenger vehicles annually.
