This is an interesting idea and could be a good thing, especially if there something that could be done to protect the Houston Ship Channel from direct hurricane hit rising water damage.
The refineries along the ship channel are vulnerable to flooding because it causes damage to electrical pump motors, compressor motors, etc.
When that happens they have to shut down the units affected and take time to replace the electrical items and then bring the units back up.
This takes a lot of time.
If a hurricane with heavy rainfall were to hit that area our whole country would feel the effects of it, such as shortages of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.
Our country’s refining capacity runs at about 90-95% daily and it’s been about 50 years since the last new refinery was built. They’ve been expanding refineries but no new ones.
Also, the Beaumont-Port Arthur area farther east has the two largest refineries in the US. It’s vulnerable, too.
That’s all good reasons. I guess I should wait and see the details.
I’m very skeptical of things, coming from California. Just a few examples of fiasco, the bay Bridge and the bullet train.
But California is run by idiots.