12:30 LRN Newscast Dec 2

Louisiana’s Shot for $100 program is continuing through the end of December with more than 34-thousand 100-dollar debit cards distributed so far to those receiving their initial COVID-19 vaccination. Sheree Taillon who heads up the program says the Louisiana Department of Health has partnered with an independent pharmacy group to expand the Shot for 100 program in harder-to-reach areas.

Cut 4 (08) “…the vaccination program.”

 

With oil prices dropping of late, Louisiana drivers and others nationwide are hoping that’ll mean a drop in gasoline prices, sooner rather than later. Triple A’’s Nick Chabarria says it usually takes a while for the transition to lower prices to show up at the pump.

 Cut 6 (07) “..pump as well.” 

The statewide average price of regular stands at three-10 a gallon in Louisiana, down two cents from a week ago.

 

A Legislative Budget Committee has approved the spending of 23-million dollars in federal money that will be used to modernize very old water and sewerage systems in small towns and rural parishes. House Appropriations Chair Jerome Zeringue says this round of money will fund 29 projects, but there’s more work to be done…

Cut 9 (08) “…those projects.”

Zeringue says they currently have about 300-million dollars to spend on improving water and sewerage systems that are about 100 years old.

 

Another LNG facility is coming to Cameron Parish in southwest Louisiana. Governor John Bel Edwards joined with Venture Global LNG CEO today to announce the company will invest more than ten billion dollars in a new liquefied natural gas facility.  The project will mean 200 new jobs. The new LNG facility will employ carbon capture and sequestration technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Named CP2, the new plant will have a capacity of 20 million metric tons per annum of LNG.