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A Louisiana gas plant sea wall shows challenges of flooding, energy demand
Rising seas and steel walls test the strength of a Louisiana coastal gas development, raising questions about flooding, climate change and community impacts.
Nor did they fully evaluate the hurricane threat, he said, including the potential for storm surge to overtop the plant’s sea wall, flooding the interior and dispersing toxic chemicals into surrounding wetlands and communities. Van Heerden knows all about these storms.Before Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, he used computer models to warn the city and its surrounding parishes that they faced the risk of deep flooding because of multiple levee breaks. Richard Glick, who served as a FERC commissioner under Trump and as chair during Biden’s first two years in office, said his predecessor Neil Chatterjee pushed strongly to hasten LNG permit approvals.
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