Insurance Inequity: Gulf South Residents vs LNG Expansion
Through years of applied pressure from activists organized by Rainforest Action Network, Chubb is no longer insuring Rio Grande LNG in Texas and Calcasieu Pass LNG (CP1) in Cameron, Louisiana.
Join representatives from Rainforest Action Network, South Texas Environmental Justice Network (Rio Grande LNG), and Habitat Recovery Project (CP1 LNG) in a discussion about targeting tactics, creative approaches, the wins, and the path ahead facing the LNG build out on the Gulf Coast.
Featuring:
Bekah Hinojosa is an artist and community organizer from the Rio Grande Valley and is based in Brownsville, TX. Her family has lived in this region, along the banks of the Rio Grande River and the Gulf coastline, since before Texas statehood. She holds a B.S. in Geography and Geology from the University of North Texas. For the last fourteen years, Bekah has facilitated art builds for community campaigns and civil disobedience actions on various issues such as oil & gas drilling, the BP Oil Spill, mountaintop removal, migrant justice, and climate justice. She is particularly interested in bringing resources to her border and Gulf Coast community and is inspired by building art with people of all ages.
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Misha Mayeur is a New Orleans, Louisiana-born and bred artist turned advocate. Over the past year and a half, she has been working with the fishermen of Cameron Parish in opposition to Venture Global LNG as the Director of Communications and Partnerships of Habitat Recovery Project (HRP). She is now using her decade and a half of experience in the communications field to support the soul of the soil and waters she loves, by telling the story of America's once seafood capital being erased by LNG. In tandem with Rainforest Action Network, HRP's Fisherfamily Advisory Council for Tradition and Stewardship (FACTS) has engaged in extensive campaigns targeting Chubb Insurance.
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Allison Fajans-Turner is a member of RAN’s Climate and Energy (C&E) team and leads the team’s campaign and engagement strategy urging the world’s largest banks to redirect financing from fossil fuels to a just clean energy transition. She is part of C&E’s core Stop CP2 and Gulf LNG campaign effort. Allison also works closely with the research team behind the annual Banking on Climate Chaos report, managing extensive correspondence and briefings with banks based on the BOCC’s analysis.
Allison brings over a decade of expertise in climate finance, coalition-building, and strategic communications, honed through her work to advance US domestic and international climate and clean energy policies.
Attendee entry
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