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...The enlarged scope of the Plaquemines LNG project will bring its total cost to $21bn and make it one of the largest gas export plants in the US....
...Oil and gas giant Sinopec has agreed two deals to buy at least 4m tonnes a year of liquefied natural gas from Venture Global’s proposed new export project in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, which is due to...
...The company is also working on a 20m tonne project at Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana....
...In Plaquemines parish, south of New Orleans, a levee was overtopped, flooding surrounding neighbourhoods and forcing the National Guard to rescue dozens of residents who had not heeded mandatory evacuation...
...“If we stop the leak tomorrow, we’re going to see oil for six months to a year,” said Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish, the Louisiana county that has received most of the oil spill....
...The locals are pinning their hopes on Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish, the local county....
...“People in Plaquemines parish don’t have jobs because of imported labour,” he said. “Why can’t you have first access to jobs and contracts?”...
...“BP has been and is being taken advantage of,” says Burghart Turner, a councilman for Plaquemines parish, which includes Venice and the Mississippi estuary....
...As thunder rumbled from black skies over the western area of the Mississippi delta, officials of the local Plaquemines parish headed out in a launch to assess the situation....
...The 25,000 residents of Plaquemines parish depend for their livelihoods on either the fish or the offshore oil – and more often than not on both....
...However, Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish, where oil has been coming ashore in Louisiana, sees the overall response as inadequate....
...Hahn, in charge of coastal management for the Plaquemines Parish county that includes Venice, stops to take their hand-outs....
...“If you go to the command centre, they’re running around with their heads cut off,’’ said Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish, where the oil is coming ashore....
...“If this comes in waves and goes farther inland into the marsh, we’ll be 25 to 30 years, if ever, recovering from this,” Billy Nungesser, president of local Plaquemines Parish, told reporters....
...Hahn, director of coastal zone management for the local government in Plaquemines parish. “We were losing the marsh as it is....
...There was even applause from Billy Nungesser, the president of Plaquemines parish, a coastal community, who has become a media star with his outspoken and colourful attacks on BP, such as saying he wanted...
...In Myrtle Grove, another small rural community 125 miles (108 nautical miles would be more apt, given the conditions) east from Delcambre as the crow flies in Plaquemines parish, conditions are even worse...
...Between August 22nd and 25th, there were about 40 posts in the Kenner parish forum, mostly conversations....
...Plaquemines parish issued a bond to build a prison and was depending on fees paid on prisoners that are no longer in their custody.”...
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