According to Jere Downs of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the multiple protests at several West Louisville meetings over the construction of a $40 million composting facility at the FoodPort at 30th Street and Muhammad Ali Boulevard, will no longer be part of the development.

 Concerns about industrial pollution and a negative history of such plans in impoverished neighborhoods, Nature's Methane has also postponed a presentation to Louisville Metro's Board of Zoning Adjustment.

 Seed Capital Kentucky founder Steven Reily acknowledged the people of West Louisville's influenced this move. "This is a community that has had too many things done to them for too long instead of with them or for them." Reily added, "(there has been a legacy that) "for a century has chosen to place toxic problems where disenfranchised people live...it has created a very strong fear of more projects like that."

This is a clear example that there is power in the people and power in our numbers, and when we want to organize to do something, that we can. The FoodPort project no longer has a biodigester plant in its midst.

 However, even in the midst of this victory for environmental health for a Black neighborhood, a new void has emerged that must be solved. Now with no Nature's Methane, there are five acres in the 24 acre project that will need to be developed...so what now?