Julie Dermansky

About

Julie Dermansky is a multimedia reporter and artist based in New Orleans. She is an affiliate scholar at Rutgers Universityโ€™s Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. Visit her website at www.jsdart.com.

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Construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline has continued in and around the Louisiana town of St. James despite a judgeโ€™s ruling that a state agency wrongly issued a permit allowing this oil pipeline...
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Entergy New Orleans, the company that recently won approval to build a controversial $210 million natural gas power plant in the city, confirmed that actors were paid to show support for this proje...
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A Louisiana judge ruled that state regulators violated guidelines when they issued a coastal use permit to build the Bayou Bridge pipeline in the town of St. James. The judgeโ€™s decision, made on Ap...
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On theย eighthย anniversary of the BP oil spill, Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honorรฉ stood in front of theย New Orleansย Federal Court House and called โ€œbullshitโ€ on the courtโ€™s handling of claims made by t...
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Hope Rosinskiย keptย watch over the construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline as one of itsย segments wasย installed on her land in Arcadia Parish, Louisiana.ย Whileย she had signed an agreement allowing...
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On April 12, an oil spill in the Mississippi River brought noxious fumes to music lovers at theย New Orleansย French Quarter Festival. The U.S. Coast Guard estimatesย 4,200 gallons of *heavy fuel oil ...
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On Thursday, April 5, opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline attempted to shut down its construction by blocking an industrial supply companyโ€™s facility in Iowa, Louisiana, just outside of Lake Cha...
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Sixty-year-oldย Keith Hunter lived in St. James, Louisiana, for roughly 27 years, and during that time, he watchedย as theย sugarcane farmsย gave way toย oil storage tanks and as aย railroad terminalย was...
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Today the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a federal judgeโ€™s temporary injunction halting work on the Bayou Bridge pipeline within Louisianaโ€™sย Atchafalaya Basin.ย In a 2-1 vote the higher cou...
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Despite hearing over four hours of publicย comments mostly in opposition, New Orleans City Council recently approvedย construction ofย a $210 million natural gas power plant in a predominantly minorit...