With few elected officials in attendance at a hearing for a proposed CF Industries ammonia plant north of Donaldsonville, many Ascension Parish residents who gave public comment said they didn’t want the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to approve permits for the facility.
The plant, a $4 billion facility that will use carbon capture and sequestration technology, will be located near the rural community of Modeste on the parish’s west bank. The hearing held in Donaldsonville Thursday concerned an application for an air permit and a permit required for large facilities building in areas that meet or exceed federal air quality limits.
Most locals who spoke, such as fifth-generation Modeste resident Mekaylyn Lavigne, said they didn’t want the facility to be given a permit or built in their area…