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re: Surprise collapse of $800 MIL grain facility draws activists' praise, Landry's criticism
Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:54 pm to LSUFanHouston
Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:54 pm to LSUFanHouston
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When they complain about a new project going in where people have lived, it’s a different story.
Go drive River Rd in that area. These people live in squalor.
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Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:54 pm to ragincajun03
I had no idea a grain elevator was a petrochemical project. Weird!
Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:56 pm to ragincajun03
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"We look forward to working with the community to heal, preserve, and build a healthy bright future together.
Heal from what? Self inflicted wounds since that POS LBJ was President. That SOB has been dead for decades, yet he still has power of poor whites and blacks. Preserve and build a brighter future is AKA liberal horse shite spoken by people getting palms greased on the side that don’t give two fricks about a supposed community.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 10:00 pm to Zap Rowsdower
This is what scares people, and it happened here. A lot of people died in this grain elevator incident, and it had lasting repercussions.
This post was edited on 8/7/24 at 10:03 pm
Posted on 8/7/24 at 10:07 pm to Guess
So no grain elevator because one blew up 60 years ago?
Posted on 8/7/24 at 10:12 pm to LSUFanHouston
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No guarantee jobs go to them. An
bullshite. You're making shite up. Each parish, when a new business comes in, makes that company sign an agreement that a certain percentage will be hired from the area.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 10:25 pm to MikeD
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Go drive River Rd in that area. These people live in squalor.
Only because of evil industry and their big facilities. If they would just leave St James and St John Parish, things would be much different. Those people would be swimming in prosperity.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 10:30 pm to Purple Spoon
I never said that, but it was a pretty big deal back then, and it wasn't 60 years ago. I actually think that It would have helped the area so there's that also. How about an explosion that happened last year. LINK.
Safer yes after said incident from earlier, but still with risks.
Safer yes after said incident from earlier, but still with risks.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 10:36 pm to ragincajun03
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St. John the Baptist Parish
quote:Isn’t there a high school practically across the street from a refinery? I’m not sure what a grain facility on the river is going to do.
tensions between economic development and environmental justice concerns in the heavily industrialized stretch along the river that activists have labeled "Cancer Alley."
Posted on 8/7/24 at 10:53 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Grain dust is a pollutant and has a tendency to cause explosions. Supposedly this new plant would have had newly developed controls to prevent that, but no one really trusts it.
Although that is true. This was the bigger issue
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Residents of a historic Black community in Louisiana who’ve spent years fighting against a massive grain export facility set to be built on the grounds where their enslaved ancestors once lived appear to have finally halted the project.
Quote is from a different article
Posted on 8/7/24 at 11:25 pm to MikeD
quote:Home is home cuz.
Go drive River Rd in that area. These people live in squalor.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 11:28 pm to ragincajun03
We need these projects in Louisiana to lower prices by producing within instead of importing. A grain facility? Highly doubt that would do any harm to anyone and would employ some people.
I work for an infra company that develops these projects along MS River. Can't stand the people who try to shut them down. The NIMBYs. They are in part responsible for inflation. The ones who shut down new housing, shut down big projects, all that does is decrease supply and increase prices. They're too stupid to realize this.
I work for an infra company that develops these projects along MS River. Can't stand the people who try to shut them down. The NIMBYs. They are in part responsible for inflation. The ones who shut down new housing, shut down big projects, all that does is decrease supply and increase prices. They're too stupid to realize this.
This post was edited on 8/7/24 at 11:29 pm
Posted on 8/7/24 at 11:31 pm to ragincajun03
It's so backwards today.
Placing this plant in a 90%+ White town would get 0 flack and pass permitting with flying colors.
Place a plant in a 90%+ Black town, and it is extremely hard to pass permitting.
How this isn't racist is beyond me. It's incredibly racist against white people.
Placing this plant in a 90%+ White town would get 0 flack and pass permitting with flying colors.
Place a plant in a 90%+ Black town, and it is extremely hard to pass permitting.
How this isn't racist is beyond me. It's incredibly racist against white people.
This post was edited on 8/7/24 at 11:32 pm
Posted on 8/8/24 at 1:38 am to vodkacop
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bullshite. You're making shite up. Each parish, when a new business comes in, makes that company sign an agreement that a certain percentage will be hired from the area.
What was the percentage in this deal, and in what geographical area?
Posted on 8/8/24 at 5:45 am to VernonPLSUfan
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The picture in the link is the ship getting the grain or dropping it off?
Wallace Grain Export Facility
This post was edited on 8/8/24 at 5:47 am
Posted on 8/8/24 at 6:00 am to ragincajun03
John Cummings funding the Banner sisters' opposition.
Posted on 8/8/24 at 6:21 am to Cosmo
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The heritage of no jobs living in poverty?
Yes.
Posted on 8/8/24 at 6:22 am to TxWadingFool
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Wtf does a permit from the COE for a industrial facility have to do with any of that?
They are impacting wetlands.
You have to get the blessing from at least 7 agencies addressing environmental concerns and all sorts of other crap. NOAA is even involved and soon the new European regulations.
This post was edited on 8/8/24 at 6:24 am
Posted on 8/8/24 at 6:34 am to Trevaylin
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corps of engineers destroyed the La delta by damming off bayou Lafourche at Donaldsonville in 1905. This was the largest environmental disaster in the United States
Explain this.
Posted on 8/8/24 at 6:37 am to LSUFanHouston
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I’m not sure how the locals would benefit. No guarantee jobs go to them. Any local or state tax revenue surely would be pissed away. Corporate profits go out of the area
You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Typical liberal/progressive.
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