LNG

Study: Increased LNG Exports Spell Climate Trouble

December 16, 2017 Ellen M. Gilmer and Jenny Mandel, eenews.net Educate! Climate Change, Gas export, LNG

"There are good reasons for that: It's difficult. The analysis is not the easiest thing in the world. It takes time to develop systems and methods and develop cross-agency and cross-academia expertise in those areas," he added. "But really the implications from our paper are that the greenhouse gas impacts from exporting U.S. natural gas, if you're really looking at how it impacts things here at home and abroad, can be very, very bad." That's because large volumes of U.S. LNG may not actually replace dirtier sources. Instead, the study says, exports could simply add more fossil fuels to the mix for electricity, industry and other uses, while prolonging the lives of American coal-fired plants.

Tacoma Residents And Indigenous Communities Unite To Oppose LNG Plant

August 17, 2017 Brandon Jordan, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Indigenous Peoples, LNG, Protest Demonstrations, Washington

By Brandon Jordan for Waging Nonviolence - Around 250 people, mostly women, carried banners and sang with drummers while marching through the streets of Tacoma, Washington, on Tuesday. Led by Cheryl Angel, an indigenous activist present at Standing Rock last year, the demonstrators headed toward a city council meeting to protest a liquefied natural gas plant project. There was just one problem — officials had locked the doors to City Hall. Demonstrators weren’t discouraged, however, as they finished their march at a nearby plaza. “They call it protesting,” Angel said, while speaking in the plaza. “Why are they calling it protesting? Are we really protesting, or are we standing up for what’s right? Because this shouldn’t have to be a protest, it should be an acknowledgment [of our rights].” Washington’s oldest energy utility, Puget Sound Energy, or PSE, is behind the over $300 million facility, which is expected to be completed and operational in the port area of the Tacoma Tideflats by late 2019. The Tacoma LNG Facility, as it’s called, will be able to process and hold approximately eight million gallons of liquefied natural gas — obtained via hydraulic fracking from nearby Rocky Mountain states and parts of Canada — and is mainly intended for use by local residents, as well as ships passing by the Port of Tacoma.

Protests In India Against Import Of Methane Gas

June 23, 2017 Staff, www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com Resist! India, LNG, Methane, Protests, Resources

By Staff of The Times of India - KOCHI: Njarackal policeremoved protesters from the Puthuvype LNG import terminal of the IOC on Wednesday after they allegedly disrupted the functioning of the plant. According to police, as many as 204 protesters were arrested and removed from the spot. The arrested persons were booked under sections 188, 283, 143, 145 147 and 149 of the IPC and were later let go on bail. District collector had given out instructions to ensure police protection for the smooth functioning of the terminal of Indian Oil Corporation. The district collector's direction to the rural district police chief came in the wake of orders of the state and central governments, the Kerala high court and the National Green Tribunal. High court had on September 8 ordered the police to provide necessary protection to the LPG terminal in the special economic zone of Puthuvype. The order was applicable to all persons connected with the terminal, including the company's property, employees and contractors. Varapuzha archbishop Joseph Kalathilparambil meanwhile condemned the arrest and police atrocity. "Abolishing people's protest is not the right way. There are more than 1,000 families residing in a one kilometer radius of the project. The people are apprehensive about the project leading to disasters in the future.

Beyond Extreme Energy Call In Days To Stop FERC Appointments

April 4, 2017 Staff, www.beyondextremeenergy.org Resist! Export Terminals, Fracking, LNG, Pipelines

By Staff of Beyond Extreme Energy - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is a proven rubber stamp for fracked gas pipelines. In 30 years the FERC Commissioners have only rejected one pipeline project. Right now, FERC is operating without a Quorum – it only has 2 Commissioners, not the needed 3. Until a new FERC Commissioner is approved by the Senate, the agency cannot issue the Certificates needed to approve fracked gas pipelines, compressors or LNG exports subject to its jurisdiction. This means communities are in a rare moment of protection. We need Congress to keep FERC in this power vacuum until steps are taken to replace it with an agency that’s about a just transition off fossil fuels. Any time now, President Trump will nominate new commissioners for Senate consideration and confirmation. Help us call on Congress to stop or delay Trump’s nominations, and to push for what we really need—a new agency dedicated to facilitating a just transition to an exploitation-free energy system based on locally controlled and distributed renewable sources.

Exxon, Qatar Petroleum Get OK To Export U.S. Fracked Gas

December 27, 2016 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Exxon, Fracking, LNG, Oil Export

By Steve Horn for Desmog Blog - Just days before Christmas, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave ExxonMobil a gift: a permit to export natural gas from its Golden Pass LNG (liquefied natural gas) facility located in Sabine Pass, Texas. Dubbed Golden Pass Products, the expansion of this LNG facility to export gas is a joint venture between Exxon (30 percent stake) and Qatar Petroleum (70 percent stake), the state-owned oil company. Golden Pass LNG is now the fourth LNG export facility, and third situated along the Gulf of Mexico, approved under the Obama administration.

BXE Hijacks Stage At VA Energy Policy Forum

June 18, 2016 Staff, www.beyondextremeenergy.org Resist! FERC, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, LNG, Policy, Virginia

By Staff of Beyond Extreme Energy - Activists from Beyond Extreme Energy interrupted the Virginia Energy Policy Forum in Hampton today to dramatize forcefully our conviction that current policies of the U.S. government, the Department of Energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Dominion Resources and others represented at the event are wrong-headed and dangerous. As U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz was addressing the forum, BXEers Steve Norris and Lee Stewart walked in front of the stage carrying a banner that said: “NO LNG EXPORTS.” and “Guys, we ain’t asking … Clean Energy Now.”

LNG Has No Climate Benefit For Decades, IF EVER*

June 8, 2016 Joe Romm, www.thinkprogress.org Educate! Climate Change, Fracking, LNG

By Joe Romm for Think Progress - One of the country’s leading experts on natural gas leaks told me, “a close reading of the DOE report in the context of the recent literature indicates that exporting natural gas from the U.S. as LNG is a very poor idea.” So you may wonder why the Financial Times had this headline on its story: “US LNG exports could help countries curb emissions.”

Trial Of Heather Doyle: Md. County Drops Hammer On Anti-LNG Activist

June 2, 2016 Mark Hand, www.counterpunch.org Resist! Activists, LNG

By Mark Hand for Counter Punch - Anne Meador: Cove Point LNG isn’t just a huge profit-generator for one corporation. It will have enormous ramifications for the gas industry in the Marcellus Shale. Even though the gas reserves in the Marcellus have been overestimated, probably purposefully, the gas fracked in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia is like a cork ready to pop. Frackers need to get their product to markets where they can get the best price, and that means international markets.

Flush With Victory Over Methanol, RedLine Now Targets LNG Plant

June 1, 2016 Derrick Nunnally, www.thenewstribune.com Resist! LNG, Protests

By Derrick Nunnally for The News Tribune - “No LNG,” it read, shorthand for the group’s nascent push against Puget Sound Energy’s planned liquefied natural gas plant. A few yards away, a woman with a clipboard gathered signatures for another fight: a pair of ballot issues aimed to limit industrial uses of Tacoma’s water. “The trick now is to see how the coalition can maintain the beachhead,” said John Carlton, an organizer with RedLine Tacoma, the largest and most active of several groups that emerged during the methanol debate.

Scientists Say Canada’s LNG Port Threatens Paris Climate Accord

May 31, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org Educate! Canada, Climate Change, LNG

By Nika Knight for Common Dreams - Ninety climate change experts from around the world urged Canadian government officials to "take urgent action" and reject a proposed, "unjustified" liquid natural gas (LNG) export terminal to be built on the British Columbia coast, joining with fierce local Indigenous opposition to the controversial project. "The carbon emissions of the proposed PNW LNG terminal and associated upstream natural gas development would be 'high in magnitude, continuous, irreversible and global in extent.'"

She Helped Save Her Town. Then She Finished High School.

March 17, 2016 Chris Clarke, www.kcet.org Educate! LNG, Pipelines, Women of Color, Youth Activism

By Chris Clarke for KCET - Residents along the Ventura Coast are no strangers to oil and gas development. Oil drilling has been a part of life along the Santa Barbara Channel since 1896, with gigantic oil rigs sprouting offshore in the late 1960s. But when an Australian energy company proposed to build a floating terminal 13 miles off Point Dume into a massive terminal for imported Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), and send the gas through the working-class community of Oxnard via a 36-inch pipeline, that was a step too far.

FERC Valentines Require Special Delivery

February 19, 2016 Anne Meador and John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! FERC, LNG, Pipelines

By Anne Meador and John Zangas for DC Media Group - “Clean energy policy means never having to say you’re sorry.” A twist on the catchphrase from the movieLove Story was the message delivered on Wednesday by anti-fracking activists to heads of a federal energy agency. Hoping that the four current voting members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) would get into the spirit of Valentine’s Day, they made special in-person deliveries of cards, flowers and balloons to their homes in Washington, DC, Massachusetts, Arkansas and Virginia.

LNG Terminal’s Devastating Impact Must Be Stopped

February 15, 2016 Peter McCartney, www.wildernesscommittee.org Resist! Canada, Environment, LNG

By Peter McCartney for Climate Campaigner, Wilderness Committee - VANCOUVER – An environmental assessment report released yesterday by the federal government shows that the Pacific NorthWest LNG terminal must be rejected due to its climate impact, says the Wilderness Committee. The draft report from the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), which includes the Agency’s conclusions and recommendations regarding potential environmental effects, says the proposed project on Lelu Island near Prince Rupert, BC would have “significant adverse environmental effects” due to its associated greenhouse gas emissions.

Chesapeake Earth First! Locks Down At America’s Natural Gas Alliance

August 21, 2014 Chesapeake Earth First!, earthfirstjournal.org Resist! Cove Point, Energy, Environment, Gas, LNG

In a strong statement of opposition, two activists locked their necks to the front doors of the building that hosts the offices of America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) while a crowd of supporters held signs and cheered around them. This action was taken by Chesapeake Earth First! as part of the Rise Together mobilization, a series of actions and events against extreme energy perpetrators from August 16-24. The activists locked to the doors wore shirts saying “DC says no to LNG exports” and “Maryland says no to LNG exports,” representing the places they live and their opposition to the Cove Point liquid natural gas (LNG) export facility and liquefaction plant proposed to be built by Dominion Energy in Southern Maryland. The front doors were successfully blocked for two and a half hours.

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