Erasing Modeste

In interviews with residents of Modeste, it became clear that people living in the area were unaware of the scale and impact these proposed new ammonia plants was about to have upon their community, it would surround them on both sides creating an unsafe situation that would potentially leave residents left behind trapped between two highly-hazardous facilities (a residential buyout was not on the table at that time). I create the visual to show as much information as I could gather from the site plan permit drawings that the ammonia plant applicants (CF Blue Point and Clean Hydrogen Works) submitted as part of their state application. I then overlaid all of this information on a high-resolution aerial photograph so that measurements could be taken of the distance of hazardous elements of the industrial plants (such as: flare stacks, ammonia storage tanks, CCS carbon dioxide pipelines). The resulting maps were presented to community members and clergy at a town hall meeting in Donaldsonville as part of RISE St James outreach and organizing efforts.