Diane Wilson, an environmental activist, is alarmed by Exxon's recent application to build an $8.6 billion plastics manufacturing plant in Point Comfort, Texas. This proposed facility is near waterways she has worked to clean from pollution caused by another plant, Formosa. Wilson fears that the new plant, using oil and natural gas to produce key plastic components, will exacerbate environmental hazards. The steam cracker will produce not only plastic pellets but also harmful chemicals, further endangering the local ecosystem due to waste discharge into already affected waterways.
‘We have been cleaning the piss out of [Cox Creek], and this is the very place where Exxon is going to try to put its plastics plant,’ Wilson said.
‘Factories like this produce and sell plastic pellets, called nurdles, to other manufacturers who turn them into intermediary or final goods, like bottles and packaging.’
‘It looks like a big facility,’ Alexandra Shaykevich said, commenting on the scale of Exxon's proposed steam cracker.
‘Exxon's proposal calls for a steam cracker, a facility that uses oil and natural gas to make ethylene and propylene - the chemical building blocks of plastic.’
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