Fact Sheet
ABOUT THE GREENFIELD GRAIN EXPORT FACILITY
OUR MISSION:
Build a state-of-the-art Grain Export Facility in Wallace, Louisiana to drive new green jobs, environmental justice and transformative economic development in our communities.
OUR FACILITY
The new Grain Export Facility will be a key link in the agricultural chain connecting American farmers to the world. Farm products like corn and grain will arrive from up-river by low-emission barge and be transferred to silos for storage on enclosed conveyor belts. That grain will then be distributed onto other ships that will travel down-river and supply critical food staples to people across the country and around the world.
Situated on 60 acres near the Mississippi, this will be a green, low-emission site used solely for storage and river transport. There will be no on-site production, refining or manufacturing.
“As a longtime resident of Edgard and a practicing doctor, I’ve seen how jobs and growth have all too often come at the expense of public health in communities like ours. Greenfield is showing that we can have environmental justice AND economic opportunity.”
–Dr. Reginald Ross
ECONOMIC REVIVAL
Once built, the facility will employ 100 people in safe, good-paying, green jobs on the West Bank that cannot be outsourced.
$75K WITH BENEFITS ON AVERAGE
$300M+ IN NEW TAX REVENUE
Job types include control room operators, barge unloader operators, spout operators, tract drivers, graders, elections, mechanics, housekeeping, managers.
Greenfield’s economic impact will extend far beyond its own workforce to local businesses in the area, supporting nearly 1,000 jobs during construction and more than 371 new permanent jobs in the wider community once the facility opens.
The Grain Export Facility will be a major new source of tax revenue for the Parish and State to invest in local services and institutions like West St. John High School. Right now, the site where Greenfield will sit is projected to generate about $1 million in tax revenue over the next 30 years. Once the facility is built, that tax revenue will increase to more than $300 million.
PROTECTING HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT
- Designed with state-of-the-art technology like dust aspiration and enclosed conveyor belts, Greenfield will be the most advanced and cleanest grain elevator in North America. The all-new terminal will help the region transition away from a legacy of environmental and health harms.
- Facility reduces current site’s harmful airborne and water-borne pollutants
- Designed to out-perform all current and anticipated environmental standards
- Sited to avoid impact on wildlife and waterways
BUILDING COMMUNITY
- Greenfield started its work by listening, meeting with hundreds of residents, community leaders, and local businesses about responsibly revitalizing the West Bank. We know that the strength of our business is linked to the strength, health and well-being of our wider community.
- Our partnership with West St. John High School will provide $1 million for WSJ to develop new curriculum, upgrade facilities and adopt the latest technology—all part of helping the school rebuild enrollment and grow again.
- Greenfield will provide annual scholarships to WSJ students with full tuition and a monthly stipend to attend River Parishes Community College with a guarantee of employment at Greenfield after graduation
- We donated relief to thousands of residents after Hurricane Ida, including gas, food and emergency supplies following. We’ll be here to help no matter what the future brings.
PROTECTING HERITAGE
- Greenfield will help the West Bank transition to a cleaner, more sustainable local economy that builds prosperity while also honoring and protecting the natural, cultural and historic resources of the region.
- Sited a half-mile from the Whitney Plantation to honor its past, and surrounded by a 450-foot buffer of trees and greenery to keep the facility’s buildings out of view of visitors, tourists and residents
- Greenfield conducted extensive cultural and archeological surveys of the site before construction
- While our independent archeological consultant has not identified cultural resources, including unmarked burial sites, within the project area that could be impacted by construction activities, Greenfield has a plan in place that in the unlikely event cultural resources are discovered, all construction in that area will cease and Greenfield will immediately notify all appropriate agencies to responsibly address any cultural resources discovered. In the event an unmarked burial site is discovered, Greenfield will also work with interested parties to manage any unmarked burial in a way that respects and honors the legacy and memory of that person and the thousands of enslaved people forced to work in these fields and their descendants.