Members of Save Lake Peigneur are heading to Baton Rouge tomorrow in support of a proposed Senate bill. The groups says the bill will protect the groundwater surrounding the lake by prohibiting the expansion of natural gas storage caverns in the Jefferson Island Salt dome. The concerned citizens are opposed to the expansion by AGL Resources of the Jefferson Island Storage & Hub facility. AGL recently launched the website lakepeigneurfacts.com to "to provide open, honest and accurate information concerning our facility."
Authored by Sen. Troy Hebert, SB194 "protects the ground water of Lake Peigneur by prohibiting the development, expansion, or conversion of certain storage caverns in the Jefferson Island salt dome." The bill will heard on Thursday morning, April 17 at 10 a.m. before the Senate Natural Resources Committee. An e-mail sent this morning by members of Save Lake Peigneur encourages residents and concerned citizens to attend the hearing in Baton Rouge or contact members of the Senate Natural Resources Committee.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Plains Exploration and Production, the Houston company Flores has been running since 2002, is building a deepwater Gulf of Mexico warehouse and storage facility on Bernard Road in Broussard.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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