As SpaceX rumors circulate in coastal Louisiana, so do worries of losing generational land

This report was originally published by The Current. a nonprofit news organization serving Lafayette and South Louisiana.

Bennett Billeaud, who just finished his freshman year at St. Thomas More High School, has been hunting on the marsh near Pecan Island for as long as he can remember. So when he heard rumors that a space company was eyeing the land for development, he grew deeply worried.

“I was devastated,” Billeaud says…

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