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Chalmette renewable diesel project gets 2 key approvals
Two local entities have approved a tax break to convert part of a refinery in Chalmette into a facility that can make renewable diesel fuel.
The St. Bernard Parish Council and Sheriff James Pohlmann unanimously signed off on Chalmette Refining’s application for Louisiana’s Industrial Tax Exemption Program. The program requires local officials’ approval.
If the ITEP is approved by the St. Bernard Parish School Board, and the potential investors select St. Bernard for the project, construction could begin this year, according to a news release from the St. Bernard Economic Development Foundation. Plans are for the facility to be fully operational by the end of 2022 or first quarter of 2023.
Louisiana Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser and the St. Bernard Parish Council have come out against the proposed $2 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, calling it a threat to commercial and recreational fishing, bottlenose dolphins and the economies and cultures of St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes.
Councilwoman Kerri Callais said the estimated 21 square miles of new land created by the diversion over 50 years is not enough to offset the potential loss of revenue from fisheries or the effects on the area s heritage. We all know the consequences this diversion will have on both of our parishes, the economic consequences, the consequences to our culture, to our tourism that’s so important to St. Bernard,” Callais said. “It’s part of our identity. It’s who we are.
CHALMETTE, La. The St. Bernard Parish Council formalized its concerns Tuesday over a $2 billion project aimed at rebuilding eroded lands.
Council members endorsed a resolution against the project, claiming it would hurt the New Orleans area’s seafood industry.
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“People don’t come here for cypress trees and bullfrogs,” Councilwoman Kerri Callais told WDSU moments before the resolution passed. “They come here for shrimp. They come here for oysters.”
“It’s going to kill our economy,” said Councilman Fred Everhardt, Jr., who also works part-time as a fisherman. “You’re going to introduce the river to this estuary and destroy what we make our money off of that feeds our families.”