Westwego does about-face on chemical plant

The Westwego City Council listened to residents rail against the proposed $500-million chemical storage and distillation facility planned for the Kinder Morgan site on the Mississippi River in the community. 
The vote came following a presentation from Wanhua's U.S. CEO Eduardo Do Val. Do Val reportedly couldn't provide adequate questions about the plant's operations, safety features, or about the chemical the plant would distill into a number of chemical components for product manufacturing. City Councilmember Glenn Green told the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate, "When we questions he couldn't answer, or didn't want to answer, that got my attention.  I wasn't comfortable after that."