This week on Behind The Lens, the Formosa company envisions an infinite, $9.4 billion industrial advanced, generally known as the Sunshine Undertaking, that may embody 14 petrochemical vegetation and produce $500 million in native spending to St. James Parish.

If constructed, it might be one of many largest plastic complexes of its variety on this planet. However residents say that the projected financial achieve can be offset, by the hurt that the advanced would trigger, by way of poisonous air emissions.

And builders of the proposed Greenfield grain terminal in St. John Parish have canceled the $800 million challenge after extra delays from the U.S. Military Corps of Engineers.

Our friends are Lens reporter Delaney Dryfoos and Lens editor Katy Reckdahl.

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