Industrial Waste: How A St. James Community Is Struggling To Live Among An Expanding Oil And Gas Industry

River Road on the west side of St. James Parish, you pass charming, iconic sites from a bygone era - Oak Alley Plantation, Victorian- era farmhouses, simple country churches set on wide, deep lots overlooking the levee.

But increasingly along this stretch between LA. 20 and the Sunshine Bridge, what catches your eye is the far more modern sight of industrial infrastructure. Refineries. Massive oil storage tanks. Pipelines that rise 30 feet into the air from behind the batture that protects this land from the Mississippi River before crossing the road and connecting to a sprawling network of more pipelines and tanks.

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