Would ruin Babra Striesand's view.
lol .. first thing I thought of too was Babwa&FRiends view going to be effected.
She's probably against a proposed wind mills farms off Cape Cod as well... she could power a couple wind turbines all by her self.
I don't think the potential blast area in a LNG scenario is more than a few miles , I could be wrong.
The special effects in movies probably tends to be a bit misleading and probably not a good basis to calculate why 22 miles and not 6 or 3 ..
Actually, according to the South Bay Daily Breeze today, the location is purported to be 27.xx mi. north of Santa Catalina Island in the great deep coastal channel where the supertankers ply their trade.
That way, Babra could see it and so could most everyone along the So. Cal coast. (charming!)
The coastal landfall will probably be El Seguendo at the Chevron refinery there.( hard by the south side of LAX.)