March 10, 2025 according to the Port of New Orleans.
But before we take a look at when the work ends, we should understand what work has been authorized. Per the testing permit requested by the Port of New Orleans and issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer, the only work authorized to be performed is:
Clear for access and spoil/vegetation stockpile areas for geotechnical field exploration activities to include a total of twenty-seven (27) soil borings, sixty (60) Cone Penetration Tests, and approximately twelve-thousand (12,000) linear feet of Electrical Resistivity Testing.
That’s it. Nothing more. Take a look at the permit application and permit for yourself.
None of the work going on right now is related to the construction of the Louisiana International Terminal facility because no permit has been issued related to the actual facility. See our prior post that establishes this point.
So when is the testing work going to be completed? Lets see the most recent schedule published by the Port:
So we can clearly see that the work that we are currently seeing is about to stop – and that is according to the Port of New Orleans.
We need to stop thinking and talking about the work being done because that work is about to stop, just in time for the real fight to begin: the public comment hearing for the permit application to actually construct the facility.
Focus, not fear, is required to get us through this.
