re: Planning urged to prepare for La.’s chemical boom

So billionaire in NYC wants to open in a plant in La, use out states resources, water and natural gas, to create a product for export, inevitably leave by product here, and just some low level plant jobs are what we get. Are these resources unlimited? Does it have no impact? Just use us up, make your money, then leave the shite and go into another venture in a third world country somewhere?

I'm with you, cone on down...but if you aren't giving Edwin 50 million for the sweet contract then can we use it for something else?

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I'm not saying I disagree but I am genuinely curious as to what you would reasonably change.

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This would be a start: U.S. Eyes European Safety Standards for Oil Refineries

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"Refineries all over the United States are dangerous," United Steelworkers Local 13-12 spokesman Bob Landry said last week. He worked at ExxonMobil's chemical plant in Baton Rouge for 36 years before retiring in 2008. The plant uses feedstock from the company's oil refinery there. Landry, a former president of Local 13-12, said large European refineries that he visited have better safety records than their Louisiana counterparts.

What makes Europe safer? For one thing, the EU adopted the Seveso directive in 1982 after a 1976 chemical plant explosion in Seveso, Italy. Under it, EU states must see that refineries and other companies using or producing chemicals have policies in place to prevent accidents. That approach is proactive, with safety viewed as a precondition to operating.

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