News Article: Formosa plant opponents sue against zoning
Notes Save Our Wetlands lawsuit against the parish and the South Louisiana Port Commission. Article lists what the suit asserts.
News Article: Opponents may file suit over new plant site
Article notes that environmentalists may file a lawsuit to get St. John the Baptist Parish officiasl to reconsider their controversial rezoning decision.
News Article: Formosa rezoning brings lawsuit
Save Our Wetlands filed a lawsuit at St.
News Article: Formosa zoning goes before judge
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.
News Article: The beauty of Whitney Plantation adds to Louisiana's splendor
Detailed description of Whitney Plantation, mostly focusing on architectural details as well as fine possessions in the house. Some photographs are included.
News Article: 1991 Civil War: History vs. Formosa
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
News Article: EPA gets an earful on St. John plastics plant
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.
News Article: Formosa must meet state standards
Gov. Buddy Roemer said that Formosa must meet new and improved state environmental standards for proposed $2 billion chemical plant in Wallace.
What have you learned about anthropocenics in this place?
AllanaRossMy interests center around soil--its preservation, regeneration, and remediation. Living farther up North on the Mississippi in Saint Louis has changed my thinking around the relationships between soil, water, and contamination. Saint Louis and New Orleans are linked not just through their shared river and its attendant water management issues, but through patterns of extraction and contamination. New Orleans may also provide some clues (and potential solutions) to my community's changing relationship with water as we confront climate change. My work as an artist explores our relationship with landscape through tours of contaminated sites and remediative interventions in the landscape, so I approach New Orleans with questions about contaminated environments and water management through landscape design, gardening, and education.
In the lawsuit brought by Save Our Wetlands, parish officials claimed that economics, not environmental protection, were the main reason they voted to rezone 1,800 acres of land last year.