Environmentalists put pressure to stop deepwater oil port in Louisiana: Blue Voces
Environmental groups all across the US are sending letters to president Biden administration asking to stop federal permitting for new deepwater oil export terminals.
Such terminals, according to press reports, would compete with the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port. There are four deepwater oil export terminals being proposed in the Gulf of Mexico, three of which are off the coast of Texas and one off the coast of Louisiana. These new deepwater terminals would potentially export crude oil from the Permian Basin in West Texas and would compete with the only deepwater oil export terminal permitted since 2015.
According to a report in The Advocate, The Sierra Club penned a letter to the the Maritime Administration’s Lucinda Lessley and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg asking that permits under review for several different companies be denied and for a meeting with the administration.
“The proposed VLCC export fossil fuel terminals undercut the administration’s commitment to tackling climate change and protecting public health, justice and the environment, and are not in the national interest,” Devorah Ancel, senior attorney with Sierra Club, said in a letter co-signed by dozens of similar organizations and community groups.
Azul has reached out to environmentalists, activists and politicians who have expressed their opinions on offshore drilling and the negative impacts it has on their communities. From California to Connecticut and Miami, the message we heard was loud and clear: Offshore drilling is a serious threat not only to the environment but to our very connection to the ocean. Follow #BlueVoces across social media to hear their stories.