Letter Included in “Nurdles” Package Sent by Louisiana Activists Charged With “Terrorizing”

DISCLAIMER OF CONTENTS 0 DO NOT REMOVE PLASTIC NURDLES FROM BAGS 0 DO NOT LEAVE AROUND CHILDREN OR PETS 0 RECYCLE RESPONSIBLY -- CALL FORMOSA PLASTICS AT (225) 356--3341 FOR DISPOSAL INSTRUCTIONS These plastics pellets are called nurdles. These are just some ofthe billions of nurdles that Formosa Plastics dumped into the coastal waters of the state of Texas, from their Point Comfort production facility. You may remember these pellets. These were used as evidence in a landmark lawsuit filed against Formosa under the Clean Water Act. in the face of overwhelming evidence of rampant pollution and blatant disregard for health and safety norms, the company agreed to settle the case for $50 million in clean-up costs - the biggest such settlement in the history of the Clean Water Act. We have delivered this package of nurdles as a reminder - Louisiana does not need anymore pollution, plasticsorotherwise. More than 15,000 residents have said so, in public comments submitted to the La. Department of Environmental Quality. The $9.4 billion ethane cracker complex that Formosa has proposed for St. James Parish would double toxic emissions in that hard>>pressed parish even triple for those neighborhoods closest to the sprawling facility. We certainly should not provide state tax exemptions for such a bad actor as Formosa - a petrochemical conglomerate with an awful track record extending from its plants in Taiwan through the waters of Vietnam, all the way to the state of and downriver to Louisiana. We demand that LDEQ DENV Furmosa's air emissions permit application. ST. JAMES ls FULL - Formosa has no place in a parish that is already overburdened with dangerous polluting petrochemical industries. For any legal questions, please call our pro bono attorney, Loyola Law Professor Bill Quigley at Presented by the Concerned Citizens afLuuisiana