We don’t need more plastic! Help stop the Formosa Plastics Plant.
John,
St. James Parish is one of Louisiana’s 19 original parishes. It sits between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, along the Mississippi River.
85 percent of the air pollution in St. James Parish come from the near by facilities that spew chemical pollution into the air and nearby waters, so the last thing residents need is another petrochemical facility. That’s why local residents and groups like RISE St. James have been battling to stop Formosa Plastics from building a mega-polluting petrochemical plant in their community. Food & Water Watch is fighting with them!
If built, the plant would add more pollution to an already heavily polluted area, further harming the health of the residents of St. James Parish and surrounding communities. The plant would add more plastic pollution to our oceans and further the climate crisis.
The power of people speaking out and legal action has delayed the construction of the Formosa Plastics plant, but we’re fighting to stop it permanently — and you can help!
The fossil fuel industry uses its power to keep expanding petrochemicals and plastics by exporting gas around the world, requiring the construction of massive terminals to cool and ship the gas. For years the federal government has ignored the climate crisis and allowed Big Oil & Gas to continue with more fracking, pipelines, fracked gas power plants and petrochemical facilities — all of which are massive drivers of climate change.
Fracking is also driving the growth in plastics production. Petrochemical manufacturing plants like the proposed Formosa Plastics plant turn fracked gas liquids like ethane into plastics. We have to stop dirty infrastructure like the Formosa Plastic plant and ban fracking.
We need to stop expanding oil and gas production now, and at the same time make massive investments in building a domestic renewable energy manufacturing industry. That’s why we need to ban new drilling, power plants and pipelines. If we don’t, the drilling and burning of gas will continue — even under a Biden administration “clean energy” plan.
People and communities are more important than corporate profit. We can’t let corporate polluters treat them as disposable. It’s time for all of us to raise our voices against destructive pollution in communities everywhere!
Wenonah Hauter
Founder and Executive Director
Food & Water Watch
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