Energy Sector Owners Plan Major Upgrades to Boost Resiliency
If governments and businesses ignored the realities of climate change on Port Fourchon, a spit of land on Louisiana's coast, the results could be disastrous.
The port services as much as 90% of the Gulf of Mexico's offshore oil industry, and when it isn't operational, at least a fifth of the nation's domestic oil supply is blocked from delivery. Without work to adapt to a changing climate, modeling by regional utility Entergy predicts that, by 2030, an additional 10 in. of water could cover low areas of the port and the roads leading there.