The multibillion-dollar liquified natural gas industry has reshaped the landscape, the economy and the daily lives of the people who have lived in Cameron Parish for generations.
Reporter Delaney Nolan discusses how attacks on energy infrastructure drive up the price for U.S. liquified natural gas exports.
As more gas moves hundreds of miles by pipeline to an increased number of LNG export terminals licensed by the Trump administration, more pipeline leaks and explosions seem inevitable.
“We are not just statistics,” the writers emphasize. “We are families living in the shadows of corporate greed, forced to inhale the very toxins that threaten our lives.”
Lawyers for residents say that zoning that concentrates pollution in Black districts is a violation of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.
Carbon capture hasn’t delivered major climate benefits — and the plants would still emit thousands of tons of pollution.
Delaney Nolan on the town of Modeste and a new giant industrial park planned for the area.
Air-monitoring equipment for the Habitat Recovery Project positioned 25 miles away from where Tuesday’s explosion happened, tracked a steep spike in particulate matter at the time of the explosion and other substantial increases four hours afterward, as natural gas from the pipe burned.
“Offshore wind development in the Gulf would not replace oil and gas jobs,” writes U.S. Rep. Troy Carter. “It would build on them, using the same skills Louisiana workers already possess, while reducing harmful emissions that disproportionately impact frontline communities."
As the state limits sharing of independent data, the Trump administration is delaying new testing requirements for dozens of chemical plants around the Mississippi River Basin.
