Replacing high-paying oil jobs with clean energy jobs is much easier said than done, a three-person panel of Louisiana professionals with Gulf Coast operations agreed during a virtual discussion Thursday evening of the state of the oil and gas industry.
A Baton Rouge-based energy expert refutes several of the points made in a report released Tuesday by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, which called The Formosa Plastics Group’s proposed petrochemical complex in St. James Parish “financially unviable” and urged its cancellation.
Baton Rouge-area industry leaders are determining how they may be affected by Canadian Pacific Railway’s plans to acquire Kansas City Southern in a $25 billion deal that would create the first freight-rail network linking Mexico, the U.S. and Canada.
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy has joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers in introducing the nation’s first comprehensive carbon dioxide infrastructure package, which could make Louisiana a national hub for carbon capture and sequestration.