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15th Annual Environmental Media Association Awards
Former Vice-President Al Gore embraces those who expand the public awareness of environmental issues
Photo: Former VP Al Gore with Tim and Hayden Riley, Filmmakers of The Risks and Danger of LNG at the EMA Awards
HOLLYWOOD October 20, 2005
15th annual Environmental Media Assn. Awards, recognizing works
that expand public awareness of environmental issues. Kudos were presented Wednesday at the Ebell Club of L.A.
FOX TV Military & Terrorism Analyst Praises Film The Risks and Danger of LNG
"This has to be an award winner. When I watched the film it gave me more insight into the dangers that
communities face... your work should set an example for others who wish to protect the public. The detail
in your film of the dangers of LNG should leave no doubt in anyone's mind that we are facing a crisis when
an LNG facility is sited in populated areas. It should be mandatory for every first responder to view this film."
Colonel David Gavigan, Terrorism Specialist, and Military & Terrorism Analyst for FOX 25 TV, Boston
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LNG Video –
‘David’
takes on energy industry Goliath
LNG Causes Pipeline Leaks -
Warning by LngDanger.com
Why Worry If the Energy Industry Says LNG is
Safe?
July 2008
Study: US has up to 50% more natural gas than once thought USA Today
Samsung to Deliver World's Biggest LNG Tanker for Exxon Project Bloomberg Samsung was contracted to make 11 tankers, each of 266,000 cubic-meter capacity...
NOTE:
“The energy
content of a single standard LNG tanker
House deals blow to proposed Mass. LNG terminal
Court orders review of Cove Point gas project
Reuters UK, UK
3rd UPDATE: Woodside Says Emissions Plan May Threaten LNG
June 2008
Fed official rules against Fall River LNG terminal Boston Herald
LNG wins federal favor Baltimore Sun
Reversal in LNG Plant Decision Outrages Community ABC2 News MD
More bad news for LNG plan Providence Journal, RI
LNG could hit US$40 Trinidad News, Trinidad and Tobago
LNG may turn more expensive than crude oil Business Intelligence Middle East (press release), United Arab Emirates
Plans for Long Beach liquid natural gas terminal shelved Los Angeles Times Facing significant opposition, Mitsubishi subsidiary Sound Energy Solutions withdraws its LNG proposal.
May 2008
Cheniere's problems grow as LNG market slumps Houston Chronicle, United States
Latest appeal on Fall River LNG proposal fails Boston Herald
Canadian Superior plans LNG facility off New Jersey Reuters Canada
LNG facility in Mass. Bay takes first delivery Boston Globe
Court removes hurdle for LNG plant at Sparrows Point Baltimore Sun
April 2008
Carbon trade to burst LNG bubble The Australian Australia's booming $15billion a year LNG export industry has plans to triple output by 2017, which would see it eclipse coal as Australia's biggest commodity export. liquefied natural gas, could stall if new investors are forced to comply with an emissions trading scheme from 2010... Although the combustion of LNG produces up to half the emissions of coal, it involves a more greenhouse-intense production process than other fossil fuels because large amounts of energy are needed to freeze the gas for export in liquid form.
REMINDER: LNG Has 35% Higher Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Than Coal In the September 2007 edition of the journal Environmental Science and Technology, Carnegie Mellon researchers show that liquefied natural gas (LNG) imported from foreign countries and used for electricity generation could have 35 percent higher lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than coal used in advanced power plant technologies. The researchers point out that LNG has many indirect impacts compared to domestic gas. LNG is extracted in a foreign country, liquefied, put into a tanker to cross oceans, and then regasified and put into pipelines when it reaches the U.S. Each of these steps leads to indirect environmental impacts, such as carbon dioxide emissions from changing from gas to liquid and back.
ALERT:
House passes Coast Guard bill despite Bush veto threat
ALERT: New York Rejects Broadwater LNG Plant For Sound Hartford Courant
Clinton, Obama support LNG states-rights bill Longview Daily News, WA
FERC authorizes larger LNG vessel access EnergyCurrent, TX FERC has determined that the Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal can receive LNG tankers with cargo capacities of up to approximately 9.3 MMcf (266000 cubic meters).
March 2008
Supreme Court says Delaware can block BP LNG project Bizjournals.com, NC
First onshore US LNG port in 25 yrs nears startup Reuters
February 2008
ALERT: Helpless LNG Tanker Adrift off Cape Boston Herald, United States - 2/11/08 Tug boats are racing to help a stricken Liquefied Natural Gas tanker which lost power 35 miles off Cape Cod, leaving it at the mercy of powerful winds and 12-foot high waves. The fully laden, 933-foot long tanker Catalunya Spirit, with 29 listed aboard, was en route to Boston from Trinidad and Tobago when it lost propulsion at about 3 a.m. today, according to the U.S. Coast Guard in Boston… UPDATE: 2/12/08 Tugs assist, investigation underway; 2/13/08 repairs & investigation of computer glitch continue, electrical restored; 2/14/08 power restored, boilers activated, and testing operating system before turning on propulsion. 2/15/08 After several days of troubleshooting, repair specialists determined a malfunctioning boiler feed pump, which supplies water to the main propulsion boilers, caused the Catalunya Spirit's loss of power and propulsion. Captain of the Port of Boston reviewed and approved the final repair certification presented by Lloyd's Register and Teekay Corporation. The LNG delivery through Boston Harbor was cancelled.
January 2008
ALERT: MARITIME SECURITY (GAO REPORT) - LNG Tankers Vulnerable & Security Resources Lacking Government Accountability Office Report LNG Tankers face three main types of threats - suicide attacks, 'standoff' attacks, and armed assaults resulting in severe threat to public safety, environmental, and energy supply chain. The Congressional report further admonishes that the US Coast Guard - the lead federal agency for maritime security - has insufficient resources to meet its own self-imposed security standards.
ALERT: Coast Guard stretched thin, and it's about to get worse CBS News, Houston KHOU.com “I think it’s assuming too much the Coast Guard itself is going to come out and say ‘Sorry folks, we can’t protect you,’” said Tim Riley, an attorney who has spent the last five years investigating the dangers of liquefied natural gas. “The Coast Guard has had difficulty meeting its own self-imposed requirements for security,” the GAO report said. “We have started focusing on protecting air travel,” Riley added. “But yet our harbors are very, very risky right now. We should shore it all up before major tragedies start happening in the country.” VIDEO
LNG Tankers Vulnerable The Associated Press-
LNG tankers vulnerable to attack The Australian - Sydney, Australia
Long Island LNG Gas Terminal Nears FERC Approval New York Times FERC staff report drew immediate criticism from Gov. M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut, who called the conclusions ludicrous and said the state would challenge in court any approval of the terminal. “An enormous and potentially flammable industrial facility floating in the middle of Long Island Sound would be as shockingly out of place as a steel plant in a state park,” Gov. Rell said.
December 2007
Council votes to oppose LNG project Malibu Times - Malibu, CA
Wary of Protests, Exxon Plans Natural Gas Terminal in the Atlantic New York Times
Staten Islanders up in arms over proposed floating liquefied ... Staten Island Advance - SILive.com - Staten Island, NY
Coast Guard rejects Weaver's Cove Energy appeal over LNG terminal Boston Globe - United States
November 2007
ALERT: LNG Investigation - Videos - NBC
Saudi Gas Pipeline Fire Kills 28 The Associated Press Saudi Arabia (AP) — “An explosion and fire on a gas pipeline killed 28 workers in eastern Saudi Arabia… The Hawiyah plant produces 310,000 barrels of ethane and liquefied natural gas daily.”
UPDATE 4-Fire breaks out at Saudi gas plant, causes deaths
Saudi gas pipeline fire kills 28 Washington Post, United States "It appears to be an accident rather than an act of sabotage," one diplomat said.
After four died in Ras Tanura fire in July Gas pipeline blaze kills 28 in Saudi Arabia Al Arabia News Channel, AlArabiya.net, Agencies The Hawiyah plant, which produces 1.4 billion cubic feet (39.6 million cubic metres) of gas a day and cost four billion dollars to build, was launched in October 2002 as the first to process only non-associated gas.
October 2007
Coast Guard Says LNG Waterway Unsafe For Tanker Transit BOSTON (AP) -- A proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in Fall River may have been dealt a fatal blow. The Coast Guard has ruled the river approaching the Weavers Cove Energy project is unsafe for navigation by massive LNG tankers.
Smoke from LNG plant could give you cancer
Barents Observer - Archangel,
Russia
September 2007
Third Blue Whale Found Dead Off California Coast Environment News Service - USA ...the carcass was floating south of Platform Grace, Santa Barbara Channel.
Maine: Co. Can't Pull LNG Application Forbes - NY, USA ...board rejected request by Downeast LNG to withdraw application and to later resubmit
FERC approval of Four new, expanded natural gas facilities By customer@ferc.gov
August 2007
Paperwork for First of Two Area LNG Projects Accepted by Feds Malibu Surfside News Neither project sits well with some environmentalists, like Oxnard attorney Tim Riley, who is gearing up to battle an LNG terminal 13 miles west of his Oxnard Shores home. "This is a guinea pig project that is going to be twice as close to Oxnard as the BHP Billiton one," he said. "It will have two LNG tankers at it so it will be at least twice as dangerous, so we all need to team together as with BHP Billiton and work twice as hard." Riley noted that the old oil platform has reached the end of its design life, and was supposed to be removed from its prominent position on the sunset horizon in Ventura County.
Canadian PM to Bush: No LNG Tankers OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has reiterated in a private meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush that Canada will not let massive tankers carry liquefied natural gas through tricky Head Harbour Passage.
Natural Gas Imported To US For Electricity Generation May Be Environmentally Worse Than Coal Science Daily A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers report that the choices U.S. officials make today could limit how the nation's future energy needs are met and could cost consumers billions in idle power plants and associated infrastructure systems. "...liquefied natural gas (LNG) imported from foreign countries and used for electricity generation could have 35 percent higher lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than coal used in advanced power plant technologies."
Is pipeline's approval an ironic death knell for LNG plans? Daily Breeze "The Sempra plant alone can supply all the future needs anyone responsible now forecasts for California," Garamendi notes. "... any other LNG facility is economically problematic," Garamendi said.
LNG expansion plans approved Savannah Morning News, GA Local critic Judy Jennings, of the Sierra Club, said the expansion is not a done deal. Anti-LNG film coming next month The Coastal Group of the Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club plans to screen "The Risks and Dangers of LNG" at 8 p.m. Sept. 20 at The Sentient Bean coffee house, 13 E. Park Ave. Produced by Hayden and Tim Riley, who are consumer protection advocates from Oxnard Shores, Calif., the film demonstrates the perils of LNG and its vulnerability to accidents and terrorism. "This is the film that LNG proponents don't want you to see," says Tim Riley on his Web site, http://TimRileyLaw.com. NOTE: Others who are also interested in obtaining usage rights to the film for public screenings must contact the Law Office of Tim Riley at 805-984-2350 for terms and authorization.
Man-Made Island Proposed for LNG Terminal
FERC staff issues Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Bradwood Landing LNG Project ...
FERC staff issue Final Environmental Impact Statement on the Elba ...
July 2007
Small liquefied gas canisters of acetylene, commonly used by welders, exploded in Dallas. Workers were filling acetylene tanks Wednesday, July 25, 2007 when a malfunction started a chain reaction of explosions that sent debris shooting into the air and onto Interstates 30 and 35E. The explosion rocked buildings as far as 2,000 feet away and sprayed debris 600 feet from the plant. A thick plume of smoke marred the Dallas skyline as flaming debris rained onto a busy highway during a series of explosions at a gas facility near the city's dense downtown area, rattling windows and buildings blocks away. At least three people were injured.
6.6 Earthquake Aftershock Causes Japan Nuclear Plant to Leak Radioactive Water MSNBC.com KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - A strong aftershock rocked Japan on Monday just hours after an earthquake left at least seven dead and caused a radioactive water leak and fire at one of the world’s most powerful nuclear power plants.
Malacca Strait pirates still plunderous The Japan Times A fourth case involved a Japanese-operated LNG tanker near Karimun, also in April. The LNG carrier had departed Niigata and was heading toward Singapore when pirates boarded near Karimun. A crew member found four men in the steering room.
June 2007
Judge backs county LNG ban Baltimore Sun
US Senate Rejects Giving States Greater Say Over LNG Projects CNNMoney.com
Congressional delegates back amendment to block LNG site Boston Globe
Senate approves bill establishing LNG approval process Malibu Times - Malibu, CA
May 2007
ALERT: Governor rejects offshore gas project Sacramento Bee, CA - "Any LNG import facility must meet the strict environmental standards California demands to continue to improve our air quality, protect our coast, and preserve our marine environment," the governor said in a statement. But Schwarzenegger said the proposed project by BHP Billiton LNG International Inc. "fails to meet that test."
AP Centerpiece: Down in the bayou, America's natural gas future? Boston Globe Tim Riley, a lawyer and consumer advocate based in Oxnard Shores, Calif., said not enough is known about the potential hazards of an LNG spill for the government to be able to continue licensing terminals safely. "The sheer volume is what makes it eminently dangerous," said Riley, co-producer of a film called "The Risks and Danger of LNG." ALSO: LNG Plants Rising to Meet Energy Demand Forbes, NY
U.S.’s thirst for liquid natural gas growing MSNBC LNG is hot in energy-hungry US CNN InternationalApril 2007
ALERT: The California Coastal Commission unanimously voted 12-0 to sink BHP Billiton's LNG floating platform proposal. Three days earlier the California State Lands Commission, before a packed house untied against LNG (800 inside & over 1000 outside), denied Billiton's LNG Deep Water Port pipeline license.
ALERT: The next West Coast LNG Battleground - Platform Grace oil platform 10.5 miles offshore California Coastline This new guinea-pig LNG fossil-fuel sea-factory proposal will directly impact Malibu, Oxnard, Ventura, and Santa Barbara. The Deep Water Port Act review (same process as for the BHP project), will commence soon - probably within 60 days. This LNG regassification sea-factory proposal has been dubbed 'Clearwater' by its proponents as if it were simply a desalination plant as opposed to a dirty and dangerous LNG fossil-fuel sea-factory. From the get-go, this euphemistic project name is probably a tell-tale sign of just how profoundly our intelligence will be insulted by the predictably superficial spin.
ALERT: According to FERC Chairman - Domestic Gas Reserves are Growing For years the FERC has been urging LNG proliferation in America - claiming our domestic gas reserves are decreasing. Yet now, as the FERC pushes for expansion of new pipelines they claim - domestic gas reserves are increasing. Is this inconsistency due to incompetence, intentional manipulation or simply unrestrained arrogance? Rockies Pipeline Project: Laying the Groundwork Energy Central In any event, the Rockies Express-West will deliver reliable and affordable supplies to others around the country, says FERC Chairman Joseph T. Kelliher. "The Rocky Mountain region is a major supply source for the Lower 48 states and its production continues to grow," he adds. "In addition, the amount of proven reserves, critical for increased production, is growing as well."
ALERT: House Bill to Give Local & State Governments Right to Prevent LNG Plants Washington, D.C. Congressman Ruppersberger, Cummings, and Sarbanes (D-Maryland) introduced legislation in the United States House of Representatives that will give local and state governments the right to veto the location of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility. The bill would strike a provision in the Energy Act of 2005 that gave the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) the authority to preempt local and state concerns about the location, construction, and operation of an LNG facility.
Council receptive to offshore LNG plan Long Beach Press-Telegram
LNG concerns inspire federal legislation Baltimore Sun - Baltimore, MD
Global axis of oil and gas ASIA Times The prospects of direct or indirect manipulation of global gas prices and of a more frequent and widespread use of gas as a political/geopolitical weapon are distinct possibilities, they fear. From the perspective of the US and its closest allies, this strikes at the heart of their strategic security interests and imperils the global dominance of the industrialized powers in the West.
LNG advocates spin revolving door again San Francisco Chronicle
Governor likes LNG despite panel vote San Francisco Chronicle
State's stance unclear after rejection of LNG terminal Sacramento Bee