At last month’s Port commission meeting Jeff Bishop confirmed to a member of the audience that an EIS report due March 2012 conducted in advance of a $60 million dredging project will include two scenarios. Post-Panamax vessels, too large to fit through a non widened Panama Canal and consistent with the larger LNG tankers are being considered in one scenario.
Reuters is reporting the following [emphasis mine]
NEW YORK, May 11 (Reuters) – Southern Union (SUG.N: Quote) and BG Group (BG.L: Quote) filed an application to build a U.S. natural gas export plant this week, the third such filing in a year as companies look to make the most of cheap domestic gas compared to higher-paying markets in Europe and Asia.
Massive increases in North American gas production have eroded import needs and prompted companies to consider exporting domestically-produced gas overseas in the form of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
LNG import terminals built on the expectation that the U.S. would soon be a major importer of LNG have sat largely idle since 2008 as shale gas production soared. Terminal developers are now hoping to build export facilities at their
existing or planned import sites.LNG is natural gas cooled to a liquid for transport in specially designed tankers.
In addition to the three terminals which have filed for permits in the United States, there are two proposals in Canada. Three other projects are being considered in North America.
Below is a table showing the planned LNG export plants. Capacity is in billion cubic feet per day.
FILED FOR REGULATORY APPROVAL
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PROJECT STATE COMPANY START UP SIZE
USA
Sabine Pass Louisiana Cheniere Energy 2015 1*
Lake Charles Louisiana Southern/BG TBD 2
Freeport LNG Texas Freeport/Macquarie 2015 1.4
CANADA
Kitimat LNG BC Apache/EOG/Encana 2015 0.7
LNG Export Co-Op BC LNG Partners/Haisla 2014 0.12Nation
UNDER CONSIDERATION
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USA
Cove Point Maryland Dominion 2015 TBD
Jordon Cove Oregon Fort Chicago/Energy 2016 TBDProjects Development
CANADA
Prince Rupert BC Shell N/A 1-2 bcfd
*potential expansion to 2 bcfd
(Compiled by Edward McAllister; Editing by David Gregorio)© Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved
This will make it very difficult for Jordan Cove and Williams Pipeline to establish a need for an import terminal and the corresponding opportunity to obtain private property easements via eminent domain.
(hat tip/Holly)
Obama just announced his new Commerce Secretary:
“During his tenure serving as the head of the California Public Utilities Commission in the early 1990s, Bryson angered some in the environmental community by arguing against renewable construction projects and defending the state’s reliance on nuclear power.”
I’ll have to continue being serious when blogging. For the record, odd Fred is not a LNG terminal or pipeline or vessel or export or import supporter. I understand that the max county pipeline capacity is 50,000 cubic feet daily – the planned 36 inch pipeline is 1 billion cubic feet daily. The LNG factory could not survive with the county pipeline only. I don’t care about the terminal per se. I’ll be gone. And, it appears that there are few in North Bend (the true danger zone) who oppose the terminal. LNG vessels the size of the USS Ronald Regan in the channel is insanity. There are about six miles frrom channel entrance along either side of the channel where a terrorist could disable a vessel and be gone before folks escorting the vessel know that he is there. Hand held weapons available for a price in the marketplace can destroy the vessel. Documented tests have shown that double hulls can be penetrated. At least one vessel has had its hulls penetrated. Hopefully this will never occur while the LNG vessel is no more than 6/10 mile (maximum mid channel to schools distance) from the 1,000 children and faculty of Madison and Sunset schools – not much further from SWOCC – where a generation of children will be incinerated. Of course widening, deepening, and carving out millions of cubic feet of dirt to create the Bishop memorial cargo wharf will only cause the velocity of the tsunami flow to be more intense across the Charleston, Bar View, Empire, North Bend, Glascow, Coos Bay, and Eastside areas.
Regarding the tax benefits, fred, it is not to be as long as the county owns the pipeline. HB 5036 specifically exempts the section of the pipeline in Coos County from paying taxes – the most we would get is a minimal transfer fee. Thank Nikki for that one.
Fred may endorse an export terminal with his odd reasoning, but we citizens opposed to any incarnation of Jordan Cove must not let up in our opposition at every turn to this plan. LNG is a disaster coming and going. We can win this if we keep up the pressure.
There is a sliver of good news here. The export terminal could be forced to use the maximum capacity of the couny pipeline ergo tax benefits. Hopefully, the location of the pipleine will not change significantly and endanger the location of Mr. Messerle’s planned slaughterhouse.