An All Too Familiar Story: The LNG Battle Begins In British Columbia

The Proposed Kitimat B.C. LNG Terminal

(Phot0:Apache Canada Ltd. - Calgary Herald)

February 3, 2012

Larry Pynn - Vancouver Sun

Liquefied natural gas may not pose the same risk as an oil spill, but it does threaten human safety and the environment — to the point the Canadian government has opposed a U.S. proposal to ship LNG on the East Coast.

And while natural gas is seen as a cleaner fossil fuel than coal or oil, the process of extracting that gas is raising concerns related to water supplies and greenhouse-gas emissions.

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The Oregonian: Oregon LNG(Warrenton) Now Wants To Import LNG To Pipe It To Coos Bay LNG To Profiteer By Export?

Saturday, July 16, 2011, 11:10 PM
By Ted Sickinger, The Oregonian The OregonianThe Oregonian/fileOregon LNG Chief Executive Officer Peter Hansen surveys the site of a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal at Warrenton. Oregon LNG is competing with Bradwood Landing to build a LNG terminal near Astoria.Two years ago, energy companies trying to build terminals to import liquefied natural gas to Oregon laughed at the notion of using their projects instead to export burgeoning supplies of U.S. and Canadian gas to lucrative markets in Asia. The idea, LNG backers said, was a conspiracy theory concocted by environmentalists and landowners who didn't want pipelines laid across public and private lands. ......

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