Verses the billions of tons of garbage and raw sewage that was swept into the gulf after Katrina? Sorry but I'll be staying away from any Gulf fish for awhile!
Posted on 05/06/2006 6:04:36 AM PDT by Ellesu
Fears for fisheries take front seat over possible economic benefits :
Placing the state's environment over its economy, Gov. Kathleen Blanco on Friday night vetoed a proposed billion-dollar liquefied natural gas port off Louisiana's coast because of the impact it might have on the state's fisheries.
The Main Pass Energy Hub, proposed by New Orleans-based Freeport McMoRan Energy LLC, would have been about 16 miles off Louisiana's coast and would have supplied about 350 billion cubic feet of natural gas a year, enough to supply a state the size of Mississippi for a year. But the jobs and natural gas the port would have brought into the state were apparently outweighed by concerns that the port could kill billions of fish eggs and larvae as it sucked in seawater to reheat the supercooled gas.
"As stewards of the public trust, this office and our state agencies and executive departments, have both a constitutional and a statutory duty to preserve and protect Louisiana's coastal and offshore marine environment, ecosystem, and fisheries for the benefit of our current and future citizens. The approval of the pending license application, without sufficient persuasive data in support, would be inconsistent with this public trust doctrine," Blanco wrote in her letter of opposition to the federal Maritime Administration.
Blanco's opposition to the project means that the project as designed is dead. Blanco had until Monday to support or oppose the port. The Maritime Administration provides permits for the ports.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Methinks Mississippi or Texas will jump on this project with both feet.
Verses the billions of tons of garbage and raw sewage that was swept into the gulf after Katrina? Sorry but I'll be staying away from any Gulf fish for awhile!
Real reason: they didn't pay enough bribes to the right people.
Another nail in her coffin.
This from the state that has the city that "makes it's own gravy" ????
What would the economic impact be to the fishing communities though? I suspect less than $85 million, but environmental concerns aside, the fishing community out here isn't chopped liver. Louisiana's culture is strongly tied to seafood. Kill off the fisheries, and you kill the culture.
Both MS, TX and AL are miles ahead of LA. As long as LA has the likes of Kathleen Blanco, Mary Landrieu, William Jefferson (Criminal Black Racist Democrat), Ray Nagin and the Confressional Black Caucus, etc. calling the shots of redevelopment and economic recovery, they will be going nowhere. Can you imagine, that this "Democrat Witch Governor" vetoed the natural gas port bill. Aw shucks, don't blame Blanco, blame the idiots that reside in Louisiana. As I said, NOLA & LA are going nowhere!!!!
Why locate another energy complex off the Gulf Coast, where hurricanes hit every year? It ought to be off the Atlantic coast, where people use the most natural gas for heating. If they don't allow it, they don't need to be warm in winter. Let them admire the seabirds and forget how cold they are.
Freeport had sought to mitigate concerns about open loop technology by minimizing the amount of water taken in, the depth at which the water would be taken and by screening out the amount of sealife that might be sucked into the system.
Also, they pledged to shut down the Main Pass terminal if there were no way to avoid or mitigate the deaths of redfish, shrimp, tuna or other species.
This week, the Environmental Protection Agency approved the project with Freeport's changes and recommended a few minor modifications. Last month, the Coast Guard, which conducted an environmental review of Main Pass, said the marine impacts would be moderate to minor. The project was supported by Louisiana industries, especially chemical plants, which said that cheap natural gas is necessary to keep their plants operating.
I found this guy pushing the issue
http://timrileylaw.com/LNG_NEWS.htm
no, the raal reason is to blackmail the feds into even more billions post Katrina. I hope "Jim Bob" Moffett (CEO of Freeport McMOran) moves his headquarters out of NOLA and back to his home state of Texas.
Because that is where the most pipelines for distribution through the nation already exist.
Just not the kind you want to sop up with a biscuit....
I am so sick of seeing the word MIGHT whenever environazis try to prevent energy production. It's always this MIGHT impact the fishies, that MIGHT effect the camel-toed carribou, etc... These idiots are so full of dire warnings whenever it comes to any kind of development but can never actually prove that anything bad will actually happen. This ain't the first natural gas port on an ocean front. Surely we can find out what happened at previous ones, and if something needs to be done better then changes can be made accordingly.
They've calculated they cannot build from the sysem we have if they regain power. They feel they must destroy it first... using its rubble as fertilizer to build their progressive, socialist utopia.
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