It begins with a promise. \"Energy dominance,\" the government calls it. Another word for the subjugation of entire landscapes \u2013 and the people who live there. In southern Louisiana, where the air smells of salt and houses cast barely any shadow because the sun has become too brutal, communities are fighting for survival. Not just against the storm. But against what the storm leaves behind \u2013 an industry that costs you your breath \u2013 literally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On May 23, 2025, the U.S. government under President Donald Trump issued a new permit for CP2, which will become the largest LNG export terminal in the United States. Methane, frozen and packaged for the global market, is being turned into a commodity here \u2013 backed by insurers like Chubb, Liberty Mutual, and Swiss Re. And by the silence of those who believe their hands stay clean as long as they sign the contracts but don\u2019t open the valves. But the communities are fighting back. Leading the way is Roishetta Ozane, mother of six children, climate activist, survivor of hurricanes, explosions, and political indifference. She says, \u201cIf you insure CP2, you\u2019re insuring the death of my children.\u201d In Lake Charles, her hometown, asthma cases are rising. Her son suffers from epileptic seizures \u2013 she believes triggered by the constant air pollution from petrochemical plants that tower over the city like cathedrals of a toxic religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The places where these projects are built are now called \"sacrifice zones.\" It\u2019s a term used by the United Nations. They are zones of systemic abandonment \u2013 not of consumption, but of justice. Almost exclusively Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities, sold a future that was never meant for them. This is where new fossil fuel infrastructures are being built, while the foundations of people\u2019s lives erode \u2013 fishing, water, air, dignity. A recent report by Rainforest Action Network reveals which insurers are making these terminals possible \u2013 Chubb, AIG, Allianz, Munich Re, Tokio Marine. The names are known. And Ozane knows the people behind them. She brings her children to meetings in New York. \u201cThey know my name,\u201d she says. And yet: CP2 is moving ahead. 54 coal-fired power plants \u2013 that\u2019s how much emissions it will produce every year. 54.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\u2019s happening here isn\u2019t a footnote to the energy transition. It\u2019s its antithesis. The fossil fuel industry calls LNG a \u201cbridge fuel.\u201d But the bridge doesn\u2019t lead to tomorrow \u2013 it leads back to a past where destruction was equated with growth. The methane exports bring billions to the coast \u2013 but not to those who live there. A Greenpeace report broke it down: the planned facilities in Louisiana alone will cause 149 premature deaths and over two billion dollars in health costs every year. Who pays for that? The ones who were never asked. While insurers like Chubb make a show of pulling out of projects in Africa or Texas, they stay silent on CP2. Perhaps because the resistance here seems too quiet. Perhaps because they assume everything\u2019s already lost on the Gulf Coast. But Roishetta Ozane defies that logic. With every protest, every relief effort of her Vessel Project, a movement grows that isn\u2019t just about resistance. It aims to build alternatives \u2013 new economic cycles, local food systems, a return to fishing, to air, to dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA victory,\u201d says Ozane, \u201cwould be if my seven-year-old son could play outside without coming back in saying he can\u2019t breathe.\u201d It\u2019s a sentence that says everything. About politics. About the environment. About the right to live. And about the crime that occurs when that right is systematically insured \u2013 for money, against protest, against humanity. At a time when insurance companies deny people protection against storm damage because climate change has become too expensive, those same companies insure new facilities that accelerate it. That\u2019s not irony. That\u2019s a crime \u2013 in real time, on official letterhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Gulf Coast is burning \u2013 not just meteorologically. It burns as a moral warning. And maybe, if the names of the responsible parties are repeated often enough \u2013 Chubb, Greenberg, Allianz, AIG \u2013 then one day people will look back and remember \u2013 that someone spoke out. And that this act of defiance had names. Roishetta Ozane. Her children. And an entire region that can no longer stay silent because it can no longer breathe.<\/p>\n
Es beginnt mit einem Versprechen. \u201eEnergie-Dominanz\u201c, nennt es die Regierung. Ein anderes Wort f\u00fcr die Unterwerfung ganzer Landschaften \u2013 und der Menschen, die sie bewohnen. Im S\u00fcden Louisianas, wo der Wind salzig riecht und die H\u00e4user kaum mehr Schatten werfen, weil die Sonne zu brutal geworden ist, k\u00e4mpfen Gemeinden ums \u00dcberleben. Nicht gegen den Sturm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"iawp_total_views":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,7,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planet-earth","category-topstory","category-trump-s-world"],"yoast_head":"\n