A wide-ranging mix of residents, environmental advocates and local elected officials spent nearly four hours airing their concerns this week over plans to build a blue hydrogen and ammonia plant in Ascension Parish that will use carbon capture technology to store C02 deep under Lake Maurepas .

The public hearing in LaPlace was the latest opportunity for opponents of the project to make their voices heard. The company behind the plan, Air Products, again defended it as an important economic development project that will safely remove climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with little disruption to the lake.

The unlikely coalition of opponents at the hearing included a veteran with two-century-old roots in Livingston Parish who cherishes the tranquility of Lake Maurepas and i

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