This report was originally published by The Current, a nonprofit news organization serving Lafayette and South Louisiana.
When Wayne Miller, assistant chief of the Pecan Island Volunteer Fire Department, spotted survey crews taking soil samples in the area Aug. 10, he suspected they might be testing the strength of the marshland to determine the best spot to build an aerospace facility. And finally, he had somewhere beyond the front porch to take his concerns — StopSpaceX.
The group was formed in early August, after months of increasingly believable rumorsthat aerospace company SpaceX is planning to build a facility in the marsh near Pecan Island…