On many nights, John Allaire can extinguish the lights in his home and continue reading a book by glowing from the 80 -foot torches that explode from the gas export station one mile.
A second possibility Natural gas texture (LNG) station in his corner, which was one day in southwest Louisiana, is concerned about Allaire, a retired oil and gas engineer whose home is located near Calcasieu Pass.
“There is continuous noise pollution, and a constant feeling,” he said. “Light pollution is incredible.”
Venture Global, the second largest liquefied natural gas producer in the United States, plans to build a second station alongside the Calcasieu Pass facility at the populated population of Cameron. The project also owns The newly built LNG stationAbout 20 miles south of New Orleans.
Cameron’s second adventure station, which is called CP2, was granted an export permit by the US Department of Energy. The statement was the approval of the fifth liquefied natural gas since the President Donald Trump took office Former President Joe Biden raised the new liquefied natural gas permits.
The USA Minister of Energy said in a statement that the Trump administration aims to reduce “red strip on projects like CP2” and enhance the availability of “American energy at reasonable, reliable and safe prices.”
Louisiana has four liquefied natural gas stations and two others are under construction. Louisiana Governor Jeff Landri, Louisiana Governor, said.
“Every time these projects come to Louisiana, [they] He said during a Speech last month Announcing the Australian Woodside Energy decision to invest approximately $ 18 billion in a suspended terminal project, previously known as Driftwood Lng, near Lake Charles, about 22 miles north of CP2.
Environmental groups say that reviving the boom of building liquefied natural gas has severe consequences for coastal societies, fisheries and climate.
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“It was harmful to our coast, as he was harmful to the air and water quality of our water,” said Ann Rollvz, Director of Louisiana Aquarius Brigade. “Property values have been destroyed [and] It is definitely harmful to our health. “
Venture did not respond to the comment.
LNG is a natural gas that cools into a liquid condition, presses its size and is easy to store and charge long distances. Six of the country Eight LNG export stations Point on the West Gulf coast, including the largest Sabine, Sabine Bass in the west of Cameron. LNG shipments from the United States It has risen over the past decadeIt rises from about 16 billion cubic feet in 2014 to less than 4.4 trillion cubic feet last year, making the world the world’s leading exports of liquefied natural gas. More than half of us goes with a little liquefied natural gas to Europe, where the demand has slowed in recent years, but Asia is hungry for more, with the rise in the share of that continent from exports to More than 30 percent Last year, according to the US Energy Information Department.
Calcasieu Pass in Venture had a rock startup that started in 2022 and ended last month when the facility sent its first shipments. The company’s construction strategy, which relied on the pre -manufactured components that were made to accelerate costs and reduce costs, resulted in power outages, many repairs and dozens of pollution violations, according to the company documents and a report By the Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. In 2022, the facility exceeded air pollution permits 139 timesAccording to the Louisiana Ministry of Environmental Quality. A warning letter in March from Deq indicated not to repair many problems. The message was martyred with recent inspections that show many “anxiety areas”, including frequent emissions violations and failure to report air pollution excesses.
Many pollution comes from ignition, which is a process that is often operated by operational breakdowns that force the facilities to burn excess gas to avoid fires or explosions. It emanates from chemicals that can cause cancer, respiratory diseases, and others Health problems.
Calcasieu Pass is allowed 60 hours burning annually by Deq, but the neighboring population claims that it goes beyond this allowance.
“It was continuing, and sometimes there are days in a row.”
Traumic shrimp in the Cameron and Callasio diocese says the scraping to deepen the waterways for large liquefied natural gas ships may harm habitats and make hunting more difficult.
“The numbers that we have now have decreased significantly,” said Shrimper Travis Dardar.
Ethan Nous, an organizer of the rainy work network, said that enhancing the ingenuity of the export of liquefied natural gas to the United States is “part of the largest fossil fuel building operations in our lives”, and will reduce efforts to shift towards cleaner energy sources such as solar energy and wind.
He said: “This will deepen the climate crisis and close us in decades of emissions.”
Rollvs said that opposition to liquefied natural gas is now doubled because both the state and the federal government strongly support the industry. Instead of focusing on the organizers, environmental groups may try to delay projects through lawsuits or persuade insurance companies and investors in the industry that liquefied natural gas is a long -term bad bet.
“We will continue to obtain the word about the date of their accident [and] “Their terrible records are as business partners,” said Rollvz. But we admit that the difficulties are enormous. “
