Some day they will tell us what happened here. For now, we can only guess.
Decades after the Wisner Donation was first established, Port Fourchon — which serves more than 90 percent of deepwater oil production in the Gulf of Mexico — was built on the land, leasing it from the trust. The trust was supposed to terminate in 2014, its 100th anniversary, which would have reverted the land and the millions of dollars in rental income it produces to the city alone.
But the March 2020 agreement Cantrell signed extended the trust, and its shared control, in perpetuity. It’s not clear why Cantrell approved the extension. She has either declined or failed to respond to repeated requests for comment from The Lens over the past year, including for this story.
An attorney for the plaintiffs also declined comment for this story.
Some day maybe we will also find out what exploded last week. But not now.
In the meantime, anyone curious about the Wisner backstory is still free to peruse the AZ archives. See if you can figure it out.
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