By Wesley Muller
Louisiana Illuminator
A proposed grain terminal would harm the setting, characteristics and economies of three historic Mississippi River plantations and a cemetery in the nearly all-Black community of Wallace in St. John the Baptist Parish, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has determined.
The findings are part of an environmental review the Corps conducted on the proposed construction of the Greenfield grain terminal, a $400 million grain elevator complex in a historic Black community around Whitney Plantation.