Posted on 01/23/2007 6:34:38 PM PST by doug from upland
Posted date: 1/23/2007
Long Beach LNG Terminal Axed
By ALLEN P. ROBERTS Jr.
The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners has nixed a proposed LNG terminal in the Port of Long Beach, citing a flawed environmental impact report as well as stalled negotiations.
The $750 million facility was to have processed up to 68 million barrels of liquefied natural gas annually, and was proposed by a partnership formed by an American subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Electrical Corp. and Houston-based oil giant ConocoPhillips.
The LNG terminal has been hotly contested since it was first proposed. Environmental and community opponents claim it’s inherently unsafe to place an LNG facility so close to a major population center. Some 85,000 people live within three-miles of the site with another 350,000 within five miles.
The harbor board took its action after the Long Beach City Attorney Robert Shannon submitted an opinion that an environmental impact report conducted on the project was flawed.
"Simply put, this is the wrong project in the wrong location," said Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, who was quoted in the Long Beach Press Telegram.
There are at least four other LNG projects being proposed in the Southern California area.
Keep this in mind as they try to sell the Alaska LNG export terminal. Many in the lower 48 don't want the import terminal.
An LNG terminal can produce a very, very significant explosion. It indeed would be a very high value terrorist target. That is concern.
What a shockerooski! Imagine Californians being against drilling, power plants, and even imported energy.
Who'd a thunk that?
Actually I would be far more worried about having to smell the place.
Like a bunch of us oil field trash used to say years ago about the "yankees" that would make fun of our southern oil heritage......"let the ba$tard$ freeze in the dark".
No smell. You unload the LNG in a completely sealed environment and feed it into the gas pipelines.
The whole danger thing is way overblown, too.
We've only been doing it for about 100 years already.
Way to go. I look forward to see Californians continuing to pay astronomical energy prices.
How is refinery-free life working out for all y'all? Now to stop the pipelines, too, in the northern suburbs and shantytowns of Greater Tijuana.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
How about continuing that list: only electric and hybrid autos, no coal, nuclear, or gas power plants, no lawnmowers, string trimmers, BBQ pits, no charcoal lighter fluid, no leaf blowers, no aux power plants on reefer trucks, no windmill generating farms, no diesels, no atv's, no construction, no geo-thermal development, no oil refineries, no oil drilling, no above ground power lines,
anybody add on what I forgot
The 1944 case was where LNG escaped into a city sewer and then ignited.
There's really no chance of a repeat of that accident.
If this kind of stuff really frightens you, never get within 1000 yards of a gasoline station. There are literally thousands of gallons of highly explosive gasoline just feet below the surface.
They are trying hard to kill the terminal project here inlong Island Sound.
I want it. Everyone around me thinks i am sick, but I think they are hippies.
I think you forgot a restriction on burning wood in your fireplace.
At least it wasn't UAE's project. Then it would be Bush's fault.
No persoanl property. I think that's the next step int he book of marx.
The NIBY spouting ignoramuses seem to think that they can have all of the benefits of modern life and not have to put up with the risk and inconveniences that are required to supply all of pleasures of modern life.
I want it too. They are even using the same arguments as they are in Long Beach. What is wrong with people? Can't they see the need in the future.
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