Copano Energy LLC plans to increase capacity to handle natural gas liquids (NGL) associated with growing gas production from the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas, the midstream company said.
Image: Андрей-Яланский/Adobe Stock Bitter about the recent closure of a Shell refinery, which caused about 700 people in the community to lose their jobs, residents are voicing their opposition to the construction of a new Formosa Plastics plant, part of what they call a dead-end industry.
As Mark Twain once remarked after his obituary was mistakenly published, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” That same thing could be said about the plastics industry if you listen to reports from the anti-plastics crowd, including the good citizens of St. James Parish in Louisiana. Residents told the St. James Parish Council that they are “fed up” with its support of Formosa Plastics, despite mounting evidence of massive financial risk to taxpayers and looming job losses. Formosa Plastics, they said, is part of a “dying industry.”