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Lake Charles (Louisiana)

Texas, west La. ports shut; stranded ship OK

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Ports from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Lake Charles, Louisiana, including Houston, were shut Friday due to Hurricane Ike, officials of the U.S. Coast Guard and pilots groups said. Ships' pilots stopped...

McNeese St. cancels game Saturday against Cal Poly

McNeese State canceled Saturday's home football game against Cal Poly because of Hurricane Ike's potential effects on Lake Charles.The university is scheduled to close Thursday at noon, and Calcasieu Parish has called an 8...

Louisiana Guard Prepares for Hurricane Ike

BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 11, 2008 – With parts of Louisiana still recovering from the damage of Hurricane Gustav and National Guardsmen continuing to provide assistance, Gov. Bobby Jindal has directed troops to relocate,...

LyondellBasell taking plants offline due to Hurricane Ike

Houston (Platts) --10 Sep 2008 -- [Petrochemicals] LyondellBasell confirmed Wednesday that the majority of their facilities would be offline by Friday evening ahead of Hurricane Ike's arrival on the US Gulf Coast. "In...

Pinnacle Entertainment Reopens Two Louisiana Properties Following Hurricane Gustav (PR Newswire)

Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. today announced that its Boomtown New Orleans property, located in the West Bank neighborhood across the Mississippi River from downtown New Orleans, and its L'Auberge du Lac Casino Resort in...

Westlake's 590 million lbs/yr styrene unit shut due to Gustav

Houston (Platts) -- 2Sep2008 -- Westlake's 590 million lbs/year styrene monomer facility at Lake Charles, Louisiana, remained offline Tuesday, a source confirmed. Lake Charles is still under mandatory evacuation, he added....

Isle of Capri casinos receive only glancing blow from Gustav

Only one of Isle of Capri Corp.'s three Gulf Coast casinos sustained damage from Hurricane Gustav, the Creve Coeur-based gambling company said Tuesday morning. And that was called "minimal." Casinos in Natchez and Biloxi,...

Citgo asks DOE for reserve oil

Citgo asked the U.S. Department of Energy Tuesday to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the federal agency said in a statement.The oil giant's Lake Charles, La., refinery requested 250,000 barrels of oil...

Two Pinnacle Entertainment Properties in Louisiana Report Minimal Damage from Hurricane Gustav...

Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. today announced that its Boomtown New Orleans property, located in the West Bank neighborhood across the Mississippi River from downtown New Orleans, and its L'Auberge du Lac Casino Resort in...

U.S. Coast Guard: Port Arthur traffic still halted

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said ship traffic at Port Arthur, Texas, and Lake Charles, Louisiana, was still halted on Tuesday morning, after being shut on Sunday ahead of Hurricane Gustav's landfall. Survey...