Article notes how stately plantation homes along River Road less begining to resemble Germany's Rhine valley and more like it's Ruhr Valley due to encroachment of petrochemical companies. Discusses how greenbelt will be threatened if Formosa moves into the region, controversial rezoning law, and EPA hearings. Notes that Save Our Wetlands filed a lawsuit challenging the rezoning. Newly formed nonprofit group, Historic Whitney Plantation Compact, has offered to take charge of the estate and are pressing for a buffer zone that would separate the Whitney Plantation from manufacturing operations. Article notes how in the past, plantations have been razed after industry promised to retain them, and how surrounding a plantation with industry is just another form of razing. Opponents of Formosa maintain that cultural tourism is environmentally benign alternative to more plants. River road plantations are second highest tourist attraction after the French Quarter.
Carol Strickland, 2 March 1991, "News Article: Opposition Grows to Plastics Plant near Whitney Plantation", contributed by Sheila Tahir, Project: Formosa Plastics Global Archive, Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 30 January 2023, accessed 1 December 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/news-article-opposition-grows-plastics-plant-near-whitney-plantation
Critical Commentary
Article notes how stately plantation homes along River Road less begining to resemble Germany's Rhine valley and more like it's Ruhr Valley due to encroachment of petrochemical companies. Discusses how greenbelt will be threatened if Formosa moves into the region, controversial rezoning law, and EPA hearings. Notes that Save Our Wetlands filed a lawsuit challenging the rezoning. Newly formed nonprofit group, Historic Whitney Plantation Compact, has offered to take charge of the estate and are pressing for a buffer zone that would separate the Whitney Plantation from manufacturing operations. Article notes how in the past, plantations have been razed after industry promised to retain them, and how surrounding a plantation with industry is just another form of razing. Opponents of Formosa maintain that cultural tourism is environmentally benign alternative to more plants. River road plantations are second highest tourist attraction after the French Quarter.