Louisiana LNG Tax Break Could Cost Local Communities $2.8 Billion
- On April 29, 2025, Woodside Energy confirmed it would move forward with the investment to develop the LNG export terminal in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
- The project follows Woodside's October 2024 acquisition of the stalled Driftwood LNG site, amid federal funding cuts affecting local education and healthcare budgets.
- The terminal, renamed Louisiana LNG, secured a $5.7 billion investment from Stonepeak and a long-term natural gas supply contract with bp starting in 2029.
- A Sierra Club report titled 'The People Always Pay' estimates Woodside’s tax breaks could reduce Louisiana local revenues by roughly $2.8 billion over ten years.
- These tax breaks, combined with increased LNG exports driving natural gas prices up, raise concerns about impacts on local infrastructure funding and climate emissions.
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Louisiana LNG Tax Break Could Cost Local Communities $2.8 Billion
When Australia’s Woodside Energy Group announced April 29 that it plans to move forward with its Louisiana LNG export terminal, the state hailed the move as the “largest single foreign direct investment and greenfield project in Louisiana history.” It could also create perhaps the largest single local tax giveaway in U.S. history, under a Louisiana law offering corporations property tax breaks worth billions of dollars, a new Sierra Club study s…
Woodside, bp sign gas supply agreement for Louisiana LNG – Oil & Gas 360
(World Oil) – Woodside has signed an agreement with bp for the integrated energy major to supply natural gas to the Louisiana LNG project. This agreement represents the first tranche of a diversified portfolio of feedgas that will support the Louisiana LNG project, enabled by the project’s extensive interconnectivity to multiple producing basins and inter-connecting pipelines. Woodside’s CEO Meg O’Neill said the agreement marks another milestone
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