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WHO WE ARE

Rampant industrial expansion has led to some of the nation’s worst air and water pollution in Southern Brazoria County. This puts Freeport Haven Project on the frontlines of the fight against the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries. Freeport Haven Project confronts these polluting industries by challenging permits and tax breaks for oil and gas corporations, as well as using our voices to influence key decision-makers in power.

Manning Rollerson, our founder and director, has spoken against tax abatements for the oil and gas industry at school board meetings, county sessions, and state and national forums. He’s traveled to New York City to protest the banks and insurers that support fossil fuel and petrochemical projects. He’s flown to Tokyo to meet with parliamentarians and Japanese officials, urging them to divest from polluting industries that commit environmental injustices and human rights violations in the Gulf South. He’s served as a keynote speaker at the anti-LNG summit and rally in Berlin

Through Manning’s leadership, Freeport Haven Project has organized against Enterprise Products’ SPOT project, which may now be permanently blocked. We’ve confronted Sentinel Midstream’s Texas Gulflink project, which has faced years of delays due to local and national opposition. Perhaps most importantly, we’ve spearheaded efforts to stymy the expansion of Freeport LNG.

Without grassroots organizing, none of this would be possible. Manning has built relationships as a lifelong Freeport resident by providing aid, informing, and organizing his neighbors across Brazoria County.

Our Work

  • Due to rampant oil and gas pollution, natural disasters have become a constant threat to our communities. Freeport Haven responds to this threat by getting necessities to those in need and connecting them with community resources, especially in the wake of climate-induced disasters.

  • Freeport’s fossil fuel and petrochemical industries receive millions of dollars in tax breaks while many people can’t afford rising rent and insurance rates. We pressure elected officials to change these inequitable economic systems. The good of the people must be made a priority in Freeport.

  • Informed and organized communities have the power to resist even the most powerful entities. We host town halls and inform individual residents of their power as we help them overcome the injustices they’ve weathered. In turn, we educate, agitate, and mobilize residence as we help them secure necessities like a new roof after a hurricane.

  • Whether it’s local lawmakers, national and international decision makers, or even massive fossil banks and insurers, we actively hold bad actors accountable by speaking at public forums where our voices hold the most power.