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A look at Louisiana coastal spending plans: Build 23 square miles of land, add levees, more
Louisiana plans to spend $877 million in fiscal 2022 on coastal projects building more than 23 square miles of land and on advancing hurricane storm surge reduction work along the state's southeastern and south central shoreline.
The plan represents a 19% reduction in spending from the current fiscal year, which ends June 30. That's largely the result of delays in getting permits for the $1.4 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project, said spokesman Chuck Perrodin of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
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Plans for Plaquemines Parish oil terminal near cemetery of enslaved stir fears of desecration
Again and again, major projects have been planned at St. Rosalie, but none have come to fruition. A Colorado company wanted to build a coal export terminal there, but walked away in 2018.
At that point, the Plaquemines Port and Harbor District, a public agency, purchased the old St. Rosalie property for $30.5 million. Plaquemines Liquid Terminal, a joint venture of Tallgrass Energy and Drexel Hamilton Infrastructure Partners, put up the money.
PLT now leases the site and plans to build a $20 million oil export terminal there, complete with railroad service, massive oil tanks and underground pipelines to receive oil and transfer it onto seabound tankers that can dock on the river.