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Friday, May 1, 2020

There is no wealth but our health

Here we go again, Louisiana. Another local council changes the land use plan allowing hazardous heavy industry incursion into neighborhoods and residential land use.


RISE St James Video Salt Louisiana Methane plant

RISE with St James Residents and Join them in objection to South Louisiana Methanol

Take Action !
Email Louisiana Department of Natural Resources
jay.pecot@la.gov AND matt.oneal@la.gov
CC:  scott@healthygulf.org

Title:  Objection to P20180767 P20191180



South Louisiana Methanol requires complex justification for port and industrial site body: Save Our Park!

South Louisiana Methanol has not conducted an alternatives analysis for wetland sites, nor a complex port and industrial justification.

South Louisiana Methanol cannot be permitted without these environmental and economic analyses.
There is no need to eliminate the only park in District 5 St James Parish Louisiana when a competing Methanol plant is being built a couple miles away. South Louisiana Methanol has no economic justification given the new economic changes and demand reduction of fossil fuels, in the short and long term. South Louisiana Methanol must outline what business it will remove from other methanol exporters in Louisiana, including the one next door. South Louisiana Methanol must describe how it’s PM 2.5 and other pollution will increase the death rate in St James. Otherwise, Louisiana cannot conduct a cost benefit analysis of any sort. There is no wealth but our health.

South Louisiana must conduct a hydrologic review to determine for how long and at what volumes fill of these wetlands will block drainage to and within St James canal, which has not been improved. St James is full! LDNR must hold a public hearing to understand how South Louisiana Methanol and Formosa interact to block traffic on Highway 18 and Highway 3127, eliminating DOTD evacuation routes completely in the area.

Access to health care will be eliminated during this pandemic should these permits proceed. Clean Water Act permits cannot be issued until the government addresses these questions.

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