This week on Behind The Lens, the Formosa corporation envisions an enormous, $9.4 billion industrial complex, known as the Sunshine Project, that will encompass 14 petrochemical plants and bring $500 million in local spending to St. James Parish.

If built, it would be one of the largest plastic complexes of its kind in the world. But residents say that the projected economic gain would be offset, by the harm that the complex would cause, through toxic air emissions.

And developers of the proposed Greenfield grain terminal in St. John Parish have canceled the $800 million project after additional delays from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Our guests are Lens reporter Delaney Dryfoos and Lens editor Katy Reckdahl.

Theme music by Podington Bear. Additional music Edgeworthia by Podington Bear soundofpicture.com. 

 

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