About The Struggle

Lake Maurepas Preservation Society

  • The Lake Maurepas Preservation Society is a non-profit organization of concerned citizens seeking to protect and preserve Lake Maurepas from carbon capture and storage. Louisiana Against False Solutions works closely with the Lake Maurepas Preservation Society to ensure that communities in the southeastern part of the state are protected from risky carbon capture technology.

Moratorium Fights

  • Parish Councils all around Louisiana are standing up to big industry and companies that are acting without consent, transparency, or via a democratic process. Moratoriums and resolutions to either ban or delay the CCS development in local geographies are one of the ways Louisianans are fighting back.

Follow the Money

  • Who is funding the CCS build out? Who is getting wealthier as the state of Louisiana suffers? How are other countries climate goals connected to the build-out of false solutions like LNG, Hydrogen, and CCS in the Gulf? We are diving deep to ensure we know the critical players involved.

The Issues

Problem

The state of Louisiana, long subject to destructive and exploitative extraction by fossil fuel and agriculture industries, is facing an onslaught of dangerous new industrial development. Fossil fuel companies are increasingly seeking to build new high-emissions fertilizer and energy plants in the Louisiana coastal zone, construct new pipelines through the state’s already dwindling wetlands, and inject massive amounts of industry pollution into the local geology. Companies and our state policymakers alike are selling the idea of capturing, transporting, and injecting into the ground toxic industrial pollution at the expense of the Louisiana public.

Purpose

The Louisiana Against False Solutions (LAFS) coalition is a group of more than 20 organizations leading in Louisiana and nationally for environmental, racial, and social justice. Leaders in LAFS represent a range of experiences across genders, races, orientations, age, and cultural and political affiliations (including Indigenous Peoples), united to  end our dependence on fossil fuels, and specifically to stop dangerous and ineffective technologies - like carbon capture and storage (CCS) - from being built into our communities.

Goal

A just transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy in a Louisiana environment aligned with human rights.