Letters: Carbon capture will help spread the wealth of energy corridor
The offshore energy industry at Port Fourchon yields a $3.4 billion economic impact to our state and generates $657 million in household earnings. With our energy production, we spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year to rebuild land lost to coastal erosion and wetlands, critical to storm resilience. All of this is a big deal for our small communities in the Bayou Region.
Now, the focus on carbon capture and storage technology brings us another opportunity for new investment that can support us — through CCS offshore — and also give other areas in our state that may not have traditionally been seen as energy corridors the opportunity to share in this prosperity…