re: Surprise collapse of $800 MIL grain facility draws activists' praise, Landry's criticism

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Joy Banner, an activist leader who helped spearhead opposition to the project, said "we’ve fought for three long years to save the community, way of life, and heritage we love." Banner and her sister Jo Banner are co-founders of The Descendants Project, which has sought to preserve the legacy of slaves who worked the River Parishes' plantations.

"Now the real work begins," Joy Banner said. "We look forward to working with the community to heal, preserve, and build a healthy bright future together. We want to thank our attorneys, supporters, and community members for trusting and fighting alongside us."

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environmental justice

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While I can understand their plight and the NIMBY sentiment, the environmental justice movement was quite literally started by Marxists and even domestic terrorists (see Eric Mann).

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unreasonable delays by the Army Corps of Engineers

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Unsurprising.

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The locals won’t directly benefit.

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That's just stupid. With an industrial facility comes economic growth across the board. Currently there's nothing there. With the facility there'll be a need for new convenience stores, gas stations, a place or two for breakfast/lunch, then a grocery store or two. Then as the community grows maybe a subdivision or two, It snowballs from there. That's what an economic driver is, all benefiting the local community. To prove that point just look what happens when a facility like this that's existed for a long time does to the local community when it shuts down - all those places close too.

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I know more about capitalism than 99 percent of this board.

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Clearly not.

Reminds me of the Trumpers pulling for the stock market to crash on Monday. Always sad when we pull against progress and wealth building for our own.

the reason for no economic growth in the name of environmental concerns

Environmental concerns had exactly zero to do with it in reality. Dig deeper.

There is an old black slave cemetery 300 ft. from the property. That's one of the reasons the activists used to block this from being built.

Between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, I bet there are hundreds of burial places like this, many of them lost to history and time.

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Joy Banner, an activist leader who helped spearhead opposition to the project, said "we’ve fought for three long years to save the community, way of life, and heritage we love." Banner and her sister Jo Banner are co-founders of The Descendants Project, which has sought to preserve the legacy of slaves who worked the River Parishes' plantations. "Now the real work begins," Joy Banner said. "We look forward to working with the community to heal, preserve, and build a healthy bright future together

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I get how keeping everyone there poor and dependent upon their benevolent government overlords is preserving the legacy of slaves, but how exactly do you expect a bright future from this would be my question?

Secondly, I thought we were supposed to forget everything about plantations because it was too painful? Why are we fighting to preserve plantation heritage??
I’m so confuse

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We look forward to working with the community to heal, preserve, and build a healthy bright future together

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a healthy bright future WITHOUT JOBS.
We must protect the hypothetical graves that might be there which are most hypothetically more valuable because they might be slaves. They might also be indigenous people buried there but we're saving that for appeals.