OK so it’s not that the DOE is preventing any LNG processing centers from being built, it’s sitting on export applications from countries who do not have free trade agreements with us. So the simple solution would be for those countries to drop their trade barriers and we can export LNG to them since, as the story mentions, export approval to countries with free trade agreements is automatic.
No, the DOE is sitting on export applications from companies located in the U.S. And your solution is not simple at all, since it takes years to sign a FTA with anyone.