The Thermaldyne industrial recycling facility near Port Allen has opened for business despite several ongoing legal challenges. The company began advertising job openings in The Advocate over the weekend and told the paper it began operations last week and will start processing sludge in the coming week. Environmentalists and another recycling company have filed for a court stay and temporary [...]
[caption id="attachment_1757" align="alignnone" width="300"] Source: Lousiana Department of Environmental Quality[/caption] The operators of the Colonial Landfill near Sorrento have agreed to increased air monitoring for two years under a settlement ending litigation over a permit allowing expanded dumping at the decades-old waste pile. BFI Waste Systems of Louisiana, a subsidiary of Republic Services, has agreed to hire a third-party company [...]
A judge has paused — at least for the time being — construction of an industrial recycling facility in Port Allen where residents have raised concerns about toxic chemicals. The company Thermaldyne provided a "deficiency" of information when it applied for a permit with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality last year, 19th Judicial District Judge William Morvant recently ruled. He [...]
On August 16, 2018, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDW&F) quietly approved and executed an agreement with the Grand Isle Levee District to construct, operate and manage a new airport located on a narrow strip of land near Grande Isle. The airport plan, to be constructed on the Elmer’s Island property owned by the LDW&F, included redevelopment of [...]
The Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe (PACIT) has lived on the TerreBonne and LaFourche for centuries, and thrived on the smaller bayous in between. Over the centuries, they have survived persistent challenges with unrelenting enthusiasm for life and community. While their unique culture, language, and history is what drew WWG’s Joel “Billiot” Waltzer to embrace these first peoples in the mid-1990’s, it [...]
