Louisiana Green Fuels plans on building a 700-million dollar renewable diesel refinery in Caldwell Parish on a 171-acre site at the Port of Columbia. Governor John Bel Edwards says a final investment decision is expected in late 2022, but this has the potential to be a major economic development win for rural north Louisiana.
“Louisiana Green Fuels will create 76 high-quality jobs with an annual salary of more than $68,000, plus benefits. That is a payroll of here in Columbia Parish of more than 5-million dollars,” said Edwards.
The plant would provide up to 32-million gallons of renewable fuel annually, 83-percent of the final product is expected to be renewable diesel.
Edwards says the project is also great for the environment as the state seeks to address climate change. He says the refinery would remove more carbon from the environment than it produces.
“Meaning that when the scientists get together and they look at everything that happens from that waste line in the ground and the trees that get replanted and everything that happens downstream from that this project is carbon negative,” said Edwards.
Edwards says the state has established a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. He says this biodiesel plant is a step in the right direction.
“We need to continue with our traditional oil and gas work, but at the same time diversify and do things with renewables, with wind, with blue hydrogen,” said Edwards.
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