File:Garyville and Reserve, Louisiana, and the Marathon Petroleum oil refinery.tif

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Aerial view of the Marathon oil refinery in Garyville, Louisiana

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English: Joined satellite imagery of Garyville and Reserve, Lousiana. The Marathon Petroleum oil refinery visible in the middle. This is part of a stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that is known as "Cancer Alley" because its residence face a cancer risk seven times the national average. More than 200 polluting petrochemical plants, including the refinery in Garyville, have been built along the river here. The satellite imagery comes from the 2022 NOAA National Geodetic Survey DSS 4-Band 8 Bit Imagery: New Orleans, LA dataset. Multiple photos have been stitched together and the image has been rotated to remove black spaces.

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Files were merged using ArcGIS Pro and then color corrected.
Date
Source 2022 NOAA NGS DSS 4-Band 8 Bit Imagery: New Orleans, LA
Author National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Freedom4U
Camera location30° 03′ 23.44″ N, 90° 35′ 52.73″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties.

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