Cancer Alley Communities battle Exxon in Louisiana

US Fracked Gas has been shown to be at least twice as lethal for the world climate as coal, due to massive methane leaks. However the Trump led regime has cancelled all methane measuring regulations in the industry, despite a a recent study from Harvard, and still sells the myth that gas is a less dangerous ‘transition fuel’.

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Momentum Builds to Monitor Cancer Alley Air Pollution in Real Time After Exxon Refinery Fire in Louisiana

The gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas is witnessing a gigantic insane  petrochemical expansion with dozens of new huge polluting plants, LNG ports, pipelines of frack oil, frack fossil gas and LPG supplying refineries and plastics installations. But at the same time community resistance (opens in a new is finally taking off, focusing on the plague of cancer and other diseases, along with opposition to climate chaos, methane leaks, risk of stranded assets, a glut of gas from the Permian field, as well as  recession and  coronavirus fears.

By Julie Dermansky .. see videos here.. • Feb 24, 2020

Entrance to ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge refinery on February 19, 2020, a week after a fire at the facility.

A large fire at ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge oil refinery late on February 11 lit up the sky for miles and continued until dawn. The night of the fire, ExxonMobil representatives claimed that air monitoring inside the plant…

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