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A mound of oil drums near the Baton Rouge ExxonMobil Refinery along the Mississippi River in December 1972.. Cancer Alley is the regional nickname given to an 85-mile (137 km) stretch of land [1] along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, in the River Parishes of Louisiana, which contains over 200 [2] petrochemical plants and refineries. [3]
Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media is coming on board a harrowing new documentary from director Brian Tetsuro Ivie, titled “Cancer Alley.” Grappling with themes of racial and environmental ...
Film depicts the struggle of an African-American community in Louisiana s Cancer Alley to be relocated from under the shadow of a Shell refinery. 2002 San Francisco International Film Festival Award, A Winner of Vermont International Film Festival. PBS/POV, 2002, 57 min.
Norco, Louisiana, which is a part of Cancer Alley, lies between a Shell Chemicals Plant and the Motiva refinery. [1] Over the years, Shell’s plant has grown to be the size of nine football fields and expanded its business to produce fuels, solvents, and other petroleum-based substances.
Residents of a historic Black community in Louisiana who've spent years fighting against a massive grain export facility set to be built on the grounds where their enslaved ancestors once lived ...
An agricultural company made the surprise decision Tuesday to cancel a project to build a massive grain terminal in a historic Black town in Louisiana's “Cancer Alley," a heavily industrialized ...
Sharon Lavigne (born May 1950) is an American environmental justice activist in Louisiana focused on combating petrochemical complexes in Cancer Alley. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She is the 2022 recipient of the Laetare Medal , the highest honor for American Catholics , and a 2021 recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize .
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