-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email While many approach the subject of fossil fuels through the lens of finance, science and politics, Roishetta Ozane, a Black single mother with six children, spoke with restrained emotion when discussing the extraction of liquid natural gas (LNG). Ozane has a much more personal and painful connection to the multi-billion dollar industry. "From an ethical standpoint, banks and investment firms should no longer be financing new fossil fuel infrastructure.
" "I gave birth to seven children, but one of my children was born into heaven because I had him prematurely and he did not survive," Ozane said. Two of her other children have asthma, and she believes that is also a factor. "I know that the premature births is linked to the industrial pollution that we're bringing in every day in our community.
" Related Climate change activists urge attorney general to prosecute fossil fuel industry In the face of her tragedy, Ozane became the founder, director and CEO of the Vessel Project of Louisiana , a small mutual aid and environmental justice organization. Most recently, she contributed to a new report by the grassroots environmental group Stand.Earth that details how four LNG facilities are linked to $1.
6 billion in Citibank funding and allegedly caused "over $36 million in health costs, two deaths, and more than 1,600 incidences of asthma symptoms per year" in both Louisiana and Texas. The bank’s financed emissions related to these facilities i.
