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The Battle to Stop Air Products’ Carbon Capture Project at Lake Maurepas Grows

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Credit: Julie Dermansky Air Products plans to build a manufacturing complex near Burnside, a small town in Ascension Parish, that will transform the methane in natural gas into ammonia and blue hydrogen while using technology to capture up to 95 percent of the CO2 emissions created in the process. Howarth and Mark Z.

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

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He fears that his constituency, which relies heavily on the seafood industry, will be forced to move since they will no longer be able to make a living. They believe that the collapse of their industry would benefit Walmart, edging the company closer to having a monopoly on the global seafood market.

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Biden’s Call to Increase LNG Export Capacity on Gulf Coast is Tantamount To Sarah Palin’s Call to ‘Drill Baby Drill’ According to Environmental Advocates

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Travis Dardar, an indigenous fisherman in Cameron, Louisiana, has a front-row view of the expansion of the liquified natural gas (LNG) industry’s export capacity on the Gulf Coast — and it isn’t pretty. “It The reports show that the facility has released numerous chemicals, including benzene, a known human carcinogen, and methane.

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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 is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.” is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.” gas markets to global markets leaves the U.S. I had a house right over here.

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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.