Wymarłe miasto w Luizjanie - Redux

Mossville, LA - 2/5/2016 - The sun rises over the SASOL industrial complex and the tiny residential lot where Stacey Ryan has been holding out. Nearly all the residents of Mossville -- founded by an ex-slave in 1790 and one of the first settlements of free blacks in the South -- have moved away after accepting buyouts from South African petrochemical giant Sasol, which is quickly expanding its Lake Charles Chemical Complex into the area. Stacey Ryan, a descendant of Mossville's founder, ex-slave Jacob Moss, is the last resident still living in the boundaries of the SASOL industrial complex. He moved back onto his family's land in 2011. Back then, he had a well and sewer service, he was growing much of his own food, and he had chickens, eggs, and a horse, despite the encroaching factory construction that was taking place on all sides of his property. But after debris was dumped down his well by vandals, making it unusable, and when Calcasieu Parish refused to run a water line to the house, Ryan began bringing in water in barrels from a well on another property where his mother used to live. A municipal sewer system runs in front of the house, but Sasol now owns it and Ryan says the company destroyed his sewer line when they cut down half the trees on his land after incorrectly marking the property line. The parish also declined to restore the sewer line, so he dug his own septic system. The power lines that ran to the property supplied no electricity to the house when Ryan moved back in, and although he attempted repeatedly to get power re-established, the local power company took the lines down because of "non-use." Ryan installed solar panels and a battery to make his home self-sufficient, but these were stolen as well. The parish will not grant him a permit to install new panels, so he has been running a generator to produce electricity.