Cheap gas, cheap land (it's on a big essentially empty plot that people have wanted to develop for a while, in a poor area with plenty of underutilized farmland

Cheap gas, cheap land (it's on a big essentially empty plot that people have wanted to develop for a while, in a poor area with plenty of underutilized farmland), state and local governments that care more about this project than about environmental concerns. Similar reason to why a lot of chemical manufacturing is in Louisiana.