I sure hope so - We will - We should - God willing - And Gods are willing, united to not let us mess up their creation - Or do you really believe they let us get away with it ? - They won't - That's my belief.
So, if you haven't heard about the Maryland Cove Point LNG facility expansion plans to export liquefied gas to Asia, you should really listen to this video, because it's the best summary explanation video you can get.
Mike Tidell from the Cheasapeake Climate Action Network:
Fracking is frigging earth shattering dangerous enough, so one should not only be opposing the frigging fracking drilling in gas shale formations at the start of the whole exploitation process, but also stop it at the end, preventing LNG export facilities to be constructed.
This is just a diary about me going down to the US Capitol on Sunday to join the rally to stop Dominion's Cove Point future gas exports. A nice crowd of around 1000 people (I am guessing here) gathered near the Reflecting Pool in front of the Capitol.
Below are some of my photos. I wished I had more to show and listen to, but it was so hot, that I had to go back in my car to cool down with the AC. Some of the photos I could only catch through my car's window panes. I wished I had videos of the speakers, if I find them, I will add them later. My favorite speaker is Rev. Lennox Yearwood. I could only hear from far away. He is a good guy and much fun to listen to.
From Dominion Cove Point Liquefaction and Export:
A little bit of the history of LNG facilities:
Natural gas liquefication dates back to the 19th century. Today there are more than 110 production, transport and storage facilities across the country.
U.S. natural gas companies built four marine liquefied natural gas terminals between 1971 and 1980: Lake Charles, La., Everett, Mass., Elba Island, Ga., and Cove Point, Md. (all for import)
After receiving a peak receipt volume of 253 billion cubic feet (BCF) in 1979 (which represented 1.3 percent of U.S. gas demand), LNG imports declined for two reasons:
One was because deregulation led to increasing North American domestic natural gas production. The second was because of price disputes with Algeria, then the sole LNG provider to the United States. Elba Island and Cove Point were mothballed in 1980 and Lake Charles and Everett suffered from very low utilization.
The first exports of liquefied natural gas from the United States to Asia occurred in 1969.
In 1999, the first Atlantic Basin LNG liquefication plant came on line in Trinidad and Tobago. Increasing U.S. natural gas demand, particularly for electric power generation and increasing natural gas prices, resulted in renewed interest in liquefied natural gas for the American market.
As a result, the two mothballed U.S. liquefied natural gas receiving terminals were reactivated, Elba Island in 2001 and Dominion Cove Point in 2003.
Here a map of the LNG facilities :
Import and Export LNG facilities:
Here are the proposed Export LNG facilities:
Here are the potential US and Canadian Export LNG facilites:
Anne Meador wrote ifor the DC Media Group Cove Point: I'ts All About Fracking
Production of natural gas has increased as the fracking boom released vast reservoirs locked in the nation’s shale basins. Big Gas aims to take advantage of high demand in the Asian markets and reap higher profits by shipping the surplus there.
The gas reaped from the nation’s largest source of shale gas, the Marcellus formation, which spans 104,000 square miles from New York to West Virginia, has an intended destination–Cove Point in southern Maryland. With a proposed conversion of the facility, gas would be super-cooled, then piped onto tankers for the journey to Japan and India.
Dominion Resources, the owner of the terminal, has already signed risk-free contracts with Japanese trading company Sumitomo Corp. and Indian gas company GAIL Ltd. With existing pipelines, compressors stations, midstream plants and storage facilities plus a recent Appalachian Gateway expansion, industry watchers praise Dominion as being exceedingly well-positioned for this move.
While Dominion is trying very hard to distance Cove Point from fracking –the federally unregulated drilling technique of injecting water, sand, and a chemical cocktail at high pressure into shale rock–it is, in fact, all about fracking. The entire purpose of converting Cove Point is to cash in on all the fracked gas, and it would trigger a massive expansion of drilling. The incentives would be too much to
keep fracking out of Maryland
Here is the projected increase in natural gas production:
Reason enough to oppose the whole shebang. That's why I went down to the Mall to watch the rally unfold. Here is what I saw:
And off they go:
The rally has been covered by several media outlets and probably more will follow:
1. RT Hundreds Rally in DC against Fracked Gas Exports
2. TRN Protestors Say No to Fracked Gas Export Expansion Plan
3. Think Progress Gas Export Terminal Draws Opposition From Marylanders, Faith Groups
and here the voice of those, who want it built. If you have to read that too, good luck, I try hard to make it as invisible as possible, but heh fair and balanced and all of that, if you can believe it.Dominion's hopes rise for ambitious natural gas exports.
No Fracking Way, Cove Point Stay Away.
That's what it looks like:
Flickr Images from CCAN