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Tag: Living with Industry

LNG plant operators change their tune on carbon capture

While tax subsidies allay financial concerns about carbon capture and storage (CCS), key questions remain about the controversial technology and whether it’s able to reduce carbon emissions.
by Sara Sneath September 29, 2023 Updated November 14, 2023

Residents look to St. John Parish history to save a rural stretch of the West Bank from industrialization

West Bank residents fighting the gigantic Greenfield Grain Terminal are heartened by news from the National Park Service, which will spend the next year considering a largely rural, 14-mile stretch of Great River Road for a prestigious historical designation.
by Delaney Dryfoos September 26, 2023 Updated August 30, 2024

A known risk: How carbon stored underground could find its way back into the atmosphere

Orphaned wells, which weren’t properly plugged and abandoned, are more likely pathways for CO2 leaks. And state databases show seven orphaned wells within the townships slated to provide underground carbon-dioxide storage for Venture Global’s Plaquemines LNG terminal.
by Terry L Jones and Pam Radtke for Floodlight September 22, 2023 Updated November 14, 2023

Behind The Lens episode 214: ‘That doesn’t happen on this side of the river’

by Carolyne Heldman September 15, 2023 Updated November 14, 2023

Marathon proves why it was the last refinery built in the U.S.

Noxious refinery fire deals another blow to Garyville neighbors, weary of fighting harmful emissions. Across the river, the blaze strengthens neighbors' commitment to block the introduction of industry there.
by Delaney Dryfoos September 8, 2023 Updated November 14, 2023

Behind The Lens episode 212: ‘Industry spin has become reality’

Nick Chrastil on the city's work to find $22 million for controversial Phase III jail construction. Sara Sneath on LNG export terminals belching more pollution than estimated.
by Carolyne Heldman August 11, 2023 Updated November 14, 2023

‘Death stars on sinking land’: How liquified natural gas took over the Gulf Coast

The U.S. is now the world's top exporter of LNG. Towns in southern Louisiana are paying the price --through pollution, noise, and destruction of this area's longtime way of life.
by Lylla Younes and Jake Bittle August 6, 2023 Updated November 14, 2023

LNG export terminals belching more pollution than estimated

High-tech camera detects plentiful methane leaks outside the first Gulf Coast liquified natural gas export terminals. That creates concern about the additional 20 terminals planned nationwide.
by Sara Sneath July 31, 2023 Updated August 9, 2024

Louisiana’s new fossil-fuel plants have no trouble getting property insurance — despite disappearing policies for state residents.

Oil and gas facilities along the Gulf Coast have long been a ‘major market’ for specialty insurance
by Taylor Kate Brown for Floodlight July 24, 2023 Updated November 14, 2023

Groups seek federal intervention for LNG company they deem air permit offender

by Joshua Rosenberg May 26, 2023 Updated November 14, 2023

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