Frontline leader Roishetta Ozane responds to announcement of a financial investment decision for carbon bomb CP2 LNG
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“I won’t stop opposing this project in every way I can, because my children – and everyone’s children – deserve to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and live in a healthy environment.”
Today, Venture Global announced that it has reached a final investment decision for the massive and dangerous Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2) liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project, despite widespread opposition from community leaders, local fisherfolk and shrimpers, and environmental groups nationwide.
CP2 will sit next to the existing Calcasieu Pass LNG project, which, according to a report from the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, has over 2,000 air permit deviations and has violated its permit on 84% of the days it was initially in operation.
According to the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) 2024 LNG Export Study: Energy, Economic, and Environmental Assessment of U.S. LNG Exports, new LNG export projects:
- Increase electricity costs for people in the United States
- Are not needed to meet global energy demand
- Spread toxic pollution in nearby communities, many of which are Black, brown, Indigenous, and low-income, and already highly burdened by industrial pollution.
Additionally, new research from Oil Change International, Greenpeace USA, and Earthworks, found that according to the Department of Energy’s own models, CP2 would displace renewable energy and increase greenhouse gas emissions, accelerating the climate crisis and bringing increasingly extreme hurricanes and floods to Gulf South communities.
In response, Roishetta Ozane, Founder, Director, & Chief Executive Officer, Vessel Project of Louisiana, said:
“The CP2 LNG facility is an assault on everything I hold dear. It’s a direct threat to the health and safety of my community and an assault on the livelihoods of our fishermen and shrimpers.
I’ve seen my kids struggle with asthma, eczema, headaches, and other illnesses that result from the pollution petrochemical and LNG plants dump into my community. I won’t stop opposing this project in every way I can, because my children – and everyone’s children – deserve to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and live in a healthy environment. I refuse to let Venture Global turn my community into a sacrifice zone for the sake of its profits.”