'Cancer Alley' Residents Are Trying to Stop a Huge Plastics Plant from Being Built on the Graves of Slaves

December 19, 2019
VICE

...The activists, who feel they’ve already been lied to, think there might be even more unmarked graves on the land Formosa wants to develop — and that the company might still be hiding the extent of its knowledge of those graves. They worry that if Formosa finds more graves, the company might move quickly to remove them.

“We are concerned that there might be other grave sites out there,” said Pam Spees, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, on the call Wednesday. “Every time they've had to go back, they’ve found more [graves].”

“I think they’re hiding it, I really do,” Lavigne said. “They lied so much, and now they’re hiding stuff from the parish council.” ...

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December 19, 2019