Court asked to stop work at FPG Louisiana site‘MAJOR FACILITIES’: FPG’s plants would destroy wetlands and increase the risk of flooding in the area, advocacy groups said in a 55-page request to a courtAP, NEW ORLEANS, LouisianaOpponents of Formosa Plastics Group’s (FPG, 台塑集團) plans for a US$9.4 billion plastics complex on Tuesday asked a federal judge to stop work at the site in Louisiana. Company spokeswoman Janile Parks said that the motion was meritless, “full of speculation and short on facts.”Formosa Plastics Group’s naphtha cracker on the coast of Yunlin County’s Mailiao Township is pictured in an undated photograph. Photo: Chang Hui-wen, Taipei TimesThe “limited and unintrusive” site preparation does not justify shutting down the entire project, she said in a statement e-mailed by a public relations firm. US District Judge Randall Moss is likely to rule on the motion within weeks, Julie Teel Simmonds, an attorney for the center, said in a news release. FG LA LLC, the Louisiana member of FPG, plans 10 chemical plants and four other “major facilities” on 1,000 hectares in St James Parish as what it calls the Sunshine Project after the nearby Sunshine Bridge.

Source: Taipei Times July 15, 2020 15:56 UTC