Reporting on EPA hearing, called a "scoping meeting" by their officials, to establsih what issues the EIS will cover. Sequel to April's rancorous St. John the Baptist Parish council hearings on the plant in terms of opposing viewpoints. Opponents noted the nearly $30...Read more
Author makes an impassioned plea to save the Evergreen Plantation upon learning that Formosa intends to purchase it. Gives brief history of both Evergreen and Whitney Plantations. Read more
Article is about how plantations have been gradually disappearing along River Road due to a range of issues, and how Whitney Plantation may go the same way now that Formosa is intending to build a petrochemical complex. Also talks about an EPA hearing in Edgard where...Read more
St. John the Baptist Parish Council voted 8-0 to rezone 1,300 acres of Whitney Plantation in Wallace from residential to industrial. Article lists Formosa's promises to the community as well as its poor environmental track record. Carl Baloney of River Area Planning...Read more
EPA heard citizens' comments and concerns about Formosa at a public meeting in Edgard, which is the first step in a year-long process on doing an EIS; article notes how site of Whitney Planation was chosen over Willow Bend site, and how a helicopter trip taken on Jan...Read more
Article about various historic plantations and buildings on River Road on the west bank of the Mississippi.Read more
Article ponders what will happen next to the Whitney Plantation now that Formosa has scrapped its plan for building a petrochemical complex. Formosa has pledged to donate the home and land to prservationists with expertise and resources to renovate it and open it to...Read more
Small blurb that notes that Governor Buddy Roemer will return $15,000 in campagin contributions to three Formosa Plastics Corporation group companies to avoid "the perception of a conflict of interest." Though the contributions are legal, environmentalists raised...Read more
Article discusses battle lines between proponents for and opponents of the plant, and how they squared at 2nd public hearing held by EPA in Edgard; mentions how large tract of land was rezoned to accomodate Formosa.
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