Formosa Plastics Wants to Build Huge Petrochemicals Plant

environmental problems

From this piece on Formosa Plastics, which is trying to build a massive 14-acre facility petrochemical complex in Louisiana.

If it succeeds, it would double toxic emissions in “Cancer Alley.”

Formosa Plastics has such a terrible environmental track record that it can’t continue building in Taiwan, where it is headquartered. But now it is trying to expand its operations in St. James Parish, a majority-Black community where people are already dying at a rate 50 times higher than the national average — in large part due to pollution. It’s no wonder that the company’s Sunshine Project is becoming one of the country’s most egregious examples of environmental racism.

Building more fossil fuel infrastructure is the last thing that the region needs. Hurricane Ida has severely damaged properties across St. James Parish, with most residents left without power two weeks after the hurricane made landfall, while more than 2,000 reported oil and chemical spills in Louisiana in the aftermath of Ida.

Purely disgusting.  Abuse of poor people in the United States at the hands of selfish, greedy people is revolting.

They call this the “Sunshine Project.”