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Houma’s next power plant may be in M.C.
August 5, 2010After Port Fourchon has received one kick in the teeth after another following the oil spill and the subsequent moratorium to deepwater drilling, good news has finally come to the port.
The Greater Lafourche Port Comission (GLPC) announced last week it is submitting an application for a $2.2 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) to build the Adam “Ted” Gisclair Road project.
Approval of the application should be a formality, according to Chet Chiasson, director of the GLPC. The grant is part of EDA assistance to aid the area’s economic adjustment from impacts of the oil spill and the moratorium.
“It’s going to benefit us in our expansion of the port, allowing access to industrial areas that we’re creating and road and water access for our tenants that are coming in the future,” Chiasson said.
The road will service three existing tenants and increase leasable space at the port. The project includes 3,700 linear feet of asphalt surface roadway, aggregate surface roadway and a waterline running the length of the road.
Chiasson said it will be located off NJ Theriot Road in the northern expansion of Port Fourchon on the eastern side of Slip B.
“We should be done with all this by about the second quarter of next year, if not before,” he said.
