Comments on: From Off the Coast of Massachusetts: A Cautionary Tale About Natural Gas Infrastructure http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/a-cautionary-tale-about-natural-gas-infrastructure-from-off-the-coast-of-massachusetts/ For a thriving New England Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean Mahoney http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/a-cautionary-tale-about-natural-gas-infrastructure-from-off-the-coast-of-massachusetts/#comment-2766 Sean Mahoney Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:39:06 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=13588#comment-2766 CLF appreciates the vigilance of Save Passamaquoddy Bay in putting the plans for LNG terminals in that unique envirnoment under the scrutiny of economic, environmental and safety analyses. CLF continues to seriously question the appropriateness of any LNG importing facility in Passamaquoddy Bay. - Sean Mahoney, Executive VP & Director CLF Maine CLF appreciates the vigilance of Save Passamaquoddy Bay in putting the plans for LNG terminals in that unique envirnoment under the scrutiny of economic, environmental and safety analyses. CLF continues to seriously question the appropriateness of any LNG importing facility in Passamaquoddy Bay.

- Sean Mahoney, Executive VP & Director CLF Maine

]]> By: Robert Godfrey http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/a-cautionary-tale-about-natural-gas-infrastructure-from-off-the-coast-of-massachusetts/#comment-2757 Robert Godfrey Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:48:06 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=13588#comment-2757 Additional goofball ideas that LNG projects on Passamaquoddy Bay in Maine have produced: Quoddy Bay LNG proposed, in the event of an LNG disaster, to evacuate the City of Eastport by either 1) helicopter, or 2) a temporary bridge that would take 1-hour to put into place during the emergency. Downeast LNG is proposing: 1) To construct 1.76-miles of impervous galvanized steel plate "vapor fence," with 1-mile of 30-feet-tall vapor fence along the site perimeter — including 1/2-mile along highway US-1 being 30-feet tall. 2) Three more vapor fences (25-feet-tall and 20-feet tall) inside the outside one, to prevent LNG vapor from a release from leaving the property fence line, as required by the US Dept. of Transportation. Their LNG vapor dispersion modeling indicates that hazardous, heavier-than-air, cryogenic, flammable LNG vapor would engulf areas of the beach used by the public at the terminal property as well as on neighboring beach propery. They do not propose a vapor fence to prevent that from happening. Additional goofball ideas that LNG projects on Passamaquoddy Bay in Maine have produced:

Quoddy Bay LNG proposed, in the event of an LNG disaster, to evacuate the City of Eastport by either 1) helicopter, or 2) a temporary bridge that would take 1-hour to put into place during the emergency.

Downeast LNG is proposing:
1) To construct 1.76-miles of impervous galvanized steel plate “vapor fence,” with 1-mile of 30-feet-tall vapor fence along the site perimeter — including 1/2-mile along highway US-1 being 30-feet tall.

2) Three more vapor fences (25-feet-tall and 20-feet tall) inside the outside one, to prevent LNG vapor from a release from leaving the property fence line, as required by the US Dept. of Transportation.

Their LNG vapor dispersion modeling indicates that hazardous, heavier-than-air, cryogenic, flammable LNG vapor would engulf areas of the beach used by the public at the terminal property as well as on neighboring beach propery. They do not propose a vapor fence to prevent that from happening.

]]> By: Robert Godfrey http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/a-cautionary-tale-about-natural-gas-infrastructure-from-off-the-coast-of-massachusetts/#comment-2756 Robert Godfrey Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:26:21 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=13588#comment-2756 Well, the impassioned hue and cry to import LNG still exists in Maine! Downeast LNG at Robbinston, Maine, on international Passamaquoddy Bay is still pursuing its FERC permits to import. Even though Canada prohibits LNG ship passage into and through Passamaquoddy Bay, even though Downeast LNG's proposed jetty and pier is 3,000-feet longer than Maine allows (and Maine has made that clear on the FERC docket), even though the public has unrestricted right to use the shoreline at the terminal and jetty, Downeast LNG continues to throw its money at their proposal. Who in their right mind would invest in constructing such a boondoggle, even if they were to obtain the required federal and state permits? The answer is "no one." Well, the impassioned hue and cry to import LNG still exists in Maine! Downeast LNG at Robbinston, Maine, on international Passamaquoddy Bay is still pursuing its FERC permits to import.

Even though Canada prohibits LNG ship passage into and through Passamaquoddy Bay, even though Downeast LNG’s proposed jetty and pier is 3,000-feet longer than Maine allows (and Maine has made that clear on the FERC docket), even though the public has unrestricted right to use the shoreline at the terminal and jetty, Downeast LNG continues to throw its money at their proposal.

Who in their right mind would invest in constructing such a boondoggle, even if they were to obtain the required federal and state permits? The answer is “no one.”

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