I can only imagine how many pages were in this report. I have worked on a much, much smaller project that required an EIS.
It got down to the point where there was a silted up ditch along a railroad nearby. The water in it was declared a Federally Protected Wetland and we had to take precautions so that it would not be “impacted” (like somebody stepping in it while walking from one part of the project to another).
We had to survey it, document it, and put up posts and fencing around it during construction to protect it. Luckily, being a RR ditch, there was nothing living in it (oil, creosote, etc was in it) or we would have had to relocate any of the inhabitants. Some may be thinking this is a joke, but it isn’t.
In another project, we had to “mitigate the damage” (in other words, pay) done to homeless people who lived under a nearby bridge.
It is a decent sized project. When the paperwork equals the weight of all equipment and materials, they will be able to begin construction.
More than 3,500 workers will be employed during the four- to five-year construction period if the liquefaction facilities are fully built out as proposed, and over 160 new full-time employees will be hired to manage, operate and maintain the new facilities.
Not me. We had already been issued our EIS approval for a project on 30" gas line. Just a few weeks before construction start-up, the guy that gave the approval retired. A young buck fresh out of college took his place, came out for a 'review' and immediately declared Wetlands on three low spots in the woods. That idiot held up construction for two months. It could have been longer. EPA needs to be completely replaced by people with common sense and without an agenda. It will never happen though.