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Life in Cancer Alley, When a Liquified Natural Gas Facility Moves In

Louisiana Survived Katrina, Will It Survive the Petrochemical Industry?

21 years after Katrina, one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to strike the United States, Louisianans are facing a whole new kind of storm. Liquefied natural gas facilities are disrupting the ecosystem and displacing residents, and now that the Trump administration has okayed new LNG plants, things could get much worse. Louisianans are calling their neighborhoods “cancer alley”.

LNG terminals receive, process and cool gas to liquid form before large tanker ships take their products to market overseas. Travis Dardar, an Indigenous shrimp........

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