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China’s Louisiana Purchase: Who’s building a methanol plant on the bayou?
A prominent Chinese tycoon and politician — whose natural gas company’s environmental and labor rights record recently started coming under fire in the Chinese press — is parking assets in a multibillion-dollar methanol plant in a Louisiana town. And he appears to be doing it with help from the administration of likely GOP 2016 presidential contender Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.
Read more: Part one of a three-part series on China’s role in redeveloping southern Louisiana
http://alj.am/1BlG0d8
