Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality hearing officer Mike Daniels, right, listens as St. Rose residents ask to move a Sept. 26, 2024, public hearing on a proposed ammonia plant to a larger location. (Stephanie Tarrant/Floodlight)
ST. ROSE — After a crush of about 200 St. Charles Parish residents showed up to protest a massive proposed ammonia plant Thursday night, a state agency was forced to shut down the meeting because the room could only hold 60.
“I am grateful to our residents here in St. Rose that they care enough for themselves and for the future generations to come out,” said Kimbrelle Eugene Kyrereh after the hearing was called off.
Kyrereh founded Refined Community Empowerment to fight the proposed St. Charles Clean Fuels Plant. She said she and others plastered the community around the proposed site with about 2,000 flyers alerting the public to Thursday’s Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality hearing on the facility’s minor source air permit. Last week, Kyrereh emailed DEQ requesting a larger hearing room. The agency did not grant the request.