Diane Wilson begins hunger strike to stop dredging project
Diane Wilson begins hunger strike to stop dredging project April 8, 2021, by Eldin Ganic Diane Wilson, an American environmental activist, began a hunger strike at the waterfront of Lavaca Bay yesterday to demand that the Biden Administration stop the dredging of the mercury-contaminated Matagorda Ship Channel. The dredging, which has not begun, would allow for the construction and operation of a new crude oil export terminal proposed by oil company Max Midstream. In the wake of her $50M Clean Water Act settlement with Formosa Plastics – the larges...