From KIII3 News:
Some residents living near the proposed $12 billion plastics plant that Exxon plans to build between Gregory and Portland are opposed to the project, and an environmental group called the Texas Campaign for the Environment are contesting the company’s all-important permits that are still pending before the TCEQ.
Dewey Magee lives just down the street from where the $12 billion Exxon plastics plant is set to be built. He is also one of the people in the area who have filed for a contested case hearing with the TCEQ to challenge the air permit request by Exxon. Magee’s hope is that the TCEQ will stop the plant from going in here.
“Hopefully they’re going to do their job, and if we had our way they would move this thing,” Magee said. “They would move it to another location.”
Magee said he has a grandson with asthma and fears the chemicals released into the air from the plant will affect his grandson and others who live and go to school in the area.
“It’s very concerning to us from a health standpoint,” Magee said. “They say trust us. They say we’ll be clean, but yet their history seems to differ.”
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