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![]() ![]() The people who are supportive of this project say that this was about making it more safe for all the vessels that are transiting this.īut since the beginning, groups like mine, Environmental Integrity Project, and some of our allies - including Earthworks, Earthjustice, the San Antonio Bay Waterkeeper - have known that this was really about making the channel more accessible to oil tankers. ![]() The plan was to dredge the ship channel through Matagorda Bay two and a half miles further into the Gulf, 300 feet wider at the entrance and about 10 feet deeper along parts of the channel. Gibbons: Well, they faced a lot of opposition to this project. TPR's Jerry Clayton recently spoke with Brendan Gibbons, writer and editor at the Environmental Integrity Project, about the plan to dredge the channel.Ĭlayton: The Army Corps of Engineers was on track to begin widening this channel a while back. A public comment period to the Army Corps of Engineers is closing next week. The channel in Lavaca Bay near the towns of Port Lavaca and Port O'Connor lies in a mercury tainted Superfund cleanup site. The proposed dredging of the Matagorda Ship Channel is raising alarms with environmental groups. ![]()
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