Cameron residents, landowners, business owners tell FERC they support Venture Global

Cameron residents, landowners, business owners tell FERC they support Venture Global

Published 1:13 pm Thursday, July 2, 2026

The Cameron Parish Lion’s Club joined 100 local Cameron residents, landowners and business owners in adding their signatures to a letter sent this week to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in support of Venture Global’s Calcasieu Passs 2 LNG export project.

“Venture Global is a welcome addition to our community, as they have been for more than a decade since they started developing Calcasieu Pass. Venture Global – the company itself and the people that represent it – has not only always followed through on their commitment to us, but they’ve always done right by our community,” the letter reads. “It’s one thing to talk about $1b+ that Calcasieu Pass will generate in net new local tax revenue, the $4b+ that CP2 and CP Express will generate in net new local tax revenue or the tens of thousands of jobs that each project is creating. It’s another to talk about how the small handful of people that are opposing the project are also profiting from its economic benefits.”

Venture Global Calcasieu Pass is a liquefied natural gas export facility located on a 432-site in Cameron Parish along the Calcasieu Ship Channel. It serves a major hub for processing and exporting natural gas to global energy markets.

Directly adjacent to the existing site on Monkey Island, Venture Global is constructing the CP2 LNG project. Backed by a $15.1 billion Phase 1 financing package secured in mid-2025, CP2 is expected to be one of the largest LNG export terminals in the world upon completion. Venture Global filed an expansion application with FERC in May seeking to add to the construction project six additional liquefaction blocks, a third marine loading berth, and an increased export capacity and a corresponding 44-pipeline. The proposed Marais Pipeline would transport 1.9 billion cubic feet of methane gas per day to supply the CP2 LNG export terminal.

The Cameron Parish letter writers sent their approval of the project to FERC as part of the environmental and public comment review process.

The letter writers applaud the company for using local labor for about 90 percent of the 375 jobs already in place and the partnerships created through Sowela Technical Community College’s apprenticeships and Will to Skill program. The letter also states Venture Global has given about $6 million in donations to the Cameron Parish School Board, which was used to give a 15 percent pay increase to teachers within the system for a three-year period.

The letter also lists the 17 scholarships given to graduating seniors in Cameron that Venture Global provided, their support of the Cameron Parish Special Olympics, the refurbishment of a public boat launch, funding for 4-H camps and food pantries, and their investment in new training buildings and equipment for the Cameron Fire Department.

“It also can’t be overstated how critical Venture Global was to our community with their response and recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura in 2020,” the letter continues.

The letter writers state Venture Global “knocked on every single door” in the area that would be touched by the export project to introduce their plans and solicit feedback.

“It is noteworthy that the Venture Global team obtained 92 percent (865/938) of landowner signatures for the CP Express right-of-way before the project had FERC approval or there was any mention of eminent domain, which further highlights the real frontline community’s acceptance of the company, their people and their projects,” the letter reads.

The letter writes state Venture Global has proven themselves unlike “some people, entities and organizations that choose to only come around when there are cameras and an opportunity to further their agendas and divide our small community.”

Environmental groups, including The Sierra Club, and area fishermen and shrimpers are suing to block the new facility, claiming regulators have not adequately assessed the cumulative environmental impacts of it when considered alongside other LNG export facilities in the area currently operating or in the planning stages. Two of the groups, For a Better Bayou and Fishermen Involved in Sustaining our Heritage, claim the project threatens their existence. They argue that intensive dredging during peak fishing seasons, smothers oyster beds, shrimp and fish with sediment.

This week’s letter writers — including former Cameron Parish School Board Superintendent Stephanie Rodrigue — said the same people who complain about the project “have not once offered to provide a scholarship, help send our kids to STEM competitions, help provide food to those in need or help with putting any of our community members in better positions to succeed long term.”

“Traditionally, the tax base from the drilling industry supported Cameron Parish,” the letter reads. “Since drilling in the Gulf has virtually stopped, this is an opportunity for us to not only replace the lost tax base and bring jobs and stability back to our area, but it also helps give our kids and grandkids hope for the future and options to stay home and work.”