Submitted post.

Statement in response to the St. Martin Parish Sheriffs Department’s false accusations that the L’eau Est La Vie abandoned a camp and left trash in the Atchafalaya Basin:

Just a couple weeks ago, Energy Transfer Partner workers in the presence of the police intentionally swamped and sunk our boats. After the boats were sunk many of us had to swim through snake and alligator filled waters to get to the shore and then walk. We love the basin, we are risking our lives to defend it. ETP are the ones clear-cutting hundreds of acres of ancient cypress forests and regularly spilling toxic fuel and drilling fluid in the wetlands. We cleaned up the trash, those are old photographs. If St. Martin Parish sherriffs cared about the Basin, they’d prosecute ETP for all the regulations we’ve documented them violating. But they won’t because ETP has used their out of state influence and dark money to hire those same officers as security.

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