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Amid climate change, controversial $2.5B oil terminal moves forward in Plaquemines Parish
Even as President Joe Biden and Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards take on climate change, a Midwest energy company and Plaquemines Parish officials are reviving efforts to build an oil pipeline and Mississippi River export terminal that would emit more than 500,000 tons of greenhouse gases per year.
The developers say they would invest $2.5 billion and create 35 permanent jobs. But their Plaquemines Liquids Terminal, in addition to its air pollution, would be built atop a 19th century cemetery for the enslaved people and might interfere with Louisiana’s $2 billion proposal to restore storm-buffering wetlands in Barataria Bay.