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Oil & Gas Watch: Growing use of secrecy agreements between developers and local governments troubles advocates of open government

When local elected officials in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, began negotiating to remove an historically Black community beside the Mississippi River for a 17,000-acre industrial complex, the officials signed what amount to gag orders promising to “protect the secrecy” of the project, according to documents obtained by Oil & Gas Watch News.

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