Carbon sequestration might expand in Cameron Parish

By: Natalie McLendon, The Current

Outlets: Louisiana Illuminator

Published: July 29, 2026

Words: 725

Last Updated: 5 days, 10 hours ago

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Roughly 40 people gathered at the Hackberry Community Center last week, for a public hearing on a planned carbon dioxide sequestration project in the area. If approved, the planned carbon sequestration injection well project would be the third of its kind in the state, and the second in Cameron Parish.

The permit would allow Lake Charles-based Gulf Coast Sequestration to inject and sequester up to 19 million metric tons of CO2 into two wells, 8,900 …

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