Formosa backs out, claiming potential problems with raw materials, time and money spent fighting lawsuit of a neighbor of the plant, and federal permit delays that allowed plant's market to diminish. Article notes that $700 million rayon plant would have been world's...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
Save Our Wetlands sued Lester Millet in order to challenge his rezoning to bring in Formosa plant. During the Formosa zoning trial, it came out that parish officials did not use traffic, engineering, or environmental studies by experts when rezoning the 1,800 acres of...Read more
Author beseeches Formosa to restore Whitney Plantation, though she does admit she has mixed feelings about its acquisition by the Taiwanese company. She gives a brief history of Whitney and Evergreen Plantations, as well as notes how the Energy Corporation of...Read more
Two twins who as children lived and visited Whitney Plantation recall their memories. New Orleans lawyer John Cummings is going to buy the plantation from Formosa.Read more
Trial to judge whether parish officials acted outside their last year in rezoning 1,800 acres in Wallace will commence in Edgard before Judge Remy Chaisson. Lawsuit was brought by Save Our Wetlands. Article says proponents want the jobs the plant will provide while...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
Prominent New Orleans trial laywer and real estate developer will buy Whitney Plantation and has promised to do a full resoration of the Creole mansion and its 23 outbuildings. Article mentions the lawyer, John Cummings, big cases as well as his other land holdings.Read more