RE-ENERGIZED – Legacy, emerging firms chart energy future of Louisiana
March 30, 2021
In a glass-walled conference room atop their Maritime Security Operations Center, Port of Greater Baton Rouge commissioners are considering the future of energy. It’s one week after the U.S. presidential election. But the project they’re weighing has been incubating for years.
From their promontory on the west bank of the Mississippi River, they command a view of the 517,000-barrels-per-day ExxonMobil refinery; the nation’s tallest state capitol; a Water Campus guiding Louisiana’s $50 billion coastal master plan and global research; and, ...
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