Proposed first phases of a federal infrastructure project for a mega container port in Violet, Louisiana constructed around elementary school, playground, ballpark, and existing residential neighborhoods
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Anyone else wondering if the Biden - Harris Administration's Investing in America Agenda was intended to repeat the past mistakes of further marginalizing underserved communities via federal infrastructure projects?
Were USDOT discretionary grants meant to be the nail in coffin when funding mega container ports in the middle of existing residential districts? next to an elementary school, playground, and ball park?
Should the Investing in America Agenda include threats to local school districts to sell & relocate OR we'll just build around it?
Would any project that literally creates a physical divide and makes a fence line community from surrounding neighborhoods be considered a “shovel-worthy” goal of building an America for All?
Our State of Louisiana and our nation can progress in intermodal terminals without destroying the idyllic, rural-suburban community in Violet. Alternative business models with alternative sites and or the existing state ports working together would provide more efficient, safer means to meet business needs without creating new sacrifice zones.
DEMAND USACE conduct a Full EIS
DEMAND USDOT review its benefit cost analysis (BCA)
NO PORT New Orleans
SOS Save Our St Bernard
https://www.facebook.com/SoStBernard/
Send Comments to:
via email angelle.v.greer@usace.army.mil
LDEQ WQC application 240521-01
Attn Project Manager Elizabeth Hill
via email elizabeth.hill@la.gov
Office of the Secretary
1200 New Jersey Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20590
Demand a Full EIS and BCA review on the significant adverse impact on the human habitat, including the disparate socio-economic affects and degrading public health and air quality from port pollution
Demand a public hearing and / or public meeting in Q&A format for decision makers to receive more input on the destruction of over one thousand acres forested wetlands and the irreparable damage to the community and our parish as a whole.
REFERENCE all Comments
WQC 240521-01
OCM CUP20240330
MPDG Discretionary Grant INFRA
SOS Save our St Bernard
sostbernard.org
https://www.facebook.com/SoStBernard/
These wetlands are worth preserving
