Frontline fishers and environmental justice advocates forced the meeting of the Americas Energy Summit in New Orleans to end two hours early on Friday, as they protested what the buildout of liquefied natural gas infrastructure is doing to Gulf Coast ecosystems and livelihoods.
Frontline fishers and environmental justice advocates forced the meeting of the Americas Energy Summit in New Orleans to end two hours early on Friday, as they protested what the buildout of liquefied natural gas infrastructure is doing to Gulf Coast ecosystems and livelihoods.
Fishers and shrimpers from southwest Louisiana say that new LNG export terminals are destroying habitat for marine life while the tankers make it unsafe for them to take their boats out in the areas where fishing is still possible. The destruction is taking place in the port of Cameron, which once saw the biggest catch of any fishing area in the U.S. 'We want our oystering back. We want our shrimp back. We want our dredges back. We want LNG to leave us alone,' Cameron fisherman Solomon Williams Jr. said in a statement. 'With all the oil and all the stuff they're dumping in the water, it's just killing every oyster we can get. Makes it so we can't sell our shrim
Fishers Environmental Justice Americas Energy Summit LNG Infrastructure Gulf Coast Ecosystems Livelihoods Louisiana Export Terminals Marine Life Tankers Fishing Port Of Cameron Oystering Shrimp Dredges Oil Pollution
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