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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

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The project’s supporters assert diverting the river to its historic path and unleashing the power of nature will result in the creation of 21 square miles of new submerged land in the basin’s wetlands over the next 50 years. And HDR has done extensive work on the project for the CPRA and is also a client of Emergent Method.

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Louisiana Communities Already Vulnerable to the Climate Crisis Worry That the Expansion of the LNG Export Industry Could Be Catastrophic

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They live in Plaquemines Parish a few hundred feet from a massive liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal being built by Venture Global and the Gator Express pipeline, which will transport natural gas under high pressure to the facility. Many were without power for over a week.

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

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Rita was really, really bad,” he said, referring to the 2005 hurricane that decimated Cameron Parish. “I The power lines had been replaced four times in the past two decades. “It Department of Energy (DOE) revises its review process. At issue is one big question: Is exporting gas in the “public interest”? Hiatt said.