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<\/a>\r\n\r\nJustin Mikulka, Desmog, February 18, 2018,\r\n\r\nSafety Officials Order Partial Shutdown of Sabine Pass LNG Export Facility After Discovering 10-Year History of Leaks<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n
Here’s a sample from the\r\nMajority Staff Report,\r\n\r\n\r\nUnited States House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology,\r\nMarch 1, 2018\r\n\r\nRussian Attempts to Influence U.S. Domestic Energy Markets by Exploiting Social Media<\/a>.\r\n \r\n10\/23\/2016 RT @Tim_Canova: Good news: Last night, Miami-Dade officials voted unanimously to ban fracking. #ProgressForAll\r\nhttps:\/\/t.co\/JpEEpL6QdH<\/a>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n \r\nWhat does Tim Canova’s oh-so-scurrilous tweet link to?\r\nClark Mindock, International Business Times, 3 October 2016,\r\n\r\nFracking Water Pollution: Miami Pushes Ban To Protect Florida Water Supply<\/a>,\r\n \r\nCiting concerns that fracking in their county could ruin the water\r\nsupply, officials in Miami-Dade County, Florida, have formally\r\nproposed banning the natural gas extraction method outright.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n \r\nYeah, clearly, officials in Miami-Dade County\r\nproposing to ban fracking is something we’d only know about\r\nbecause of the Russians.\r\nOr that horrid Russian rag the International Business Times (IBT).\r\n \r\nIt couldn’t be because of concerns like these:\r\n \r\nFracking is particularly controversial in Miami-Dade County because\r\nthe whole place sits on top of the Biscayne Aquifer, which supplies\r\nwater to a large number of Floridians. If that water supply were\r\npolluted by any source, scientists have said, then it is likely that\r\nthe aquifer would remain polluted forever. Fracking in the county\r\nwould require penetrating that aquifer. If something went wrong\r\n— the chemicals injected into the ground are “trade\r\nsecrets” and undisclosed by the companies — then that\r\nwater supply would be at risk.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n \r\nDon’t get me wrong:\r\nsure, there is evidence that Russians, in particular the\r\nInternet Research Agency (IRA) that Smith’s committee report\r\ngoes on about, have tried to influence all sorts of things\r\nvia social media.\r\nBut this report is a transparent attempt to use a tiny bunch\r\nof tweets to tar the huge number of Americans who have very\r\nlegitimate concerns about fracking destroying their water supplies,\r\npipelines taking their land, and leaks and explosions risking\r\ntheir children, their homes, and their way of life.\r\n \r\nHowever, Smith’s committee report does contain two useful footnotes, linking to \r\na report in The Hill of\r\n\r\na Polish deal for U.S. LNG<\/a>\r\nand a Reuters story on\r\n\r\na Lithuanian deal<\/a>.\r\n \r\nBoth are for LNG exported from Sabine Pass in Loiusiana.\r\nThat’s right, the same Sabine Pass LNG operation\r\nthat a few weeks ago got\r\n\r\nshut down because of a history of leaks<\/a>.\r\nSo bad even the\r\nPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)\r\nsent a Corrective Action Order<\/a> saying:\r\n \r\n“To date, Sabine has been unable to correct the long-standing\r\nsafety concerns described above involving the affected tanks, cannot\r\nvalidate the exact source or amount of the LNG that may have leaked\r\ninto the annulus of the affected tanks, and cannot identify the\r\ncircumstances that allowed the LNG to escape containment in the\r\nfirst place.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n \r\nSo, Rep. Smith, with these kinds of hazardous leaking fossil fuel friends, you think the Russians are the problem?\r\n \r\nNeither news story about LNG export says where Sabine Pass gets the gas.\r\nCheniere tries to avoid that subject in its\r\n\r\nSabine Pass web page<\/a>.\r\nBut that page does refer to the\r\n\r\nCreole Pass pipeline<\/a>, and Cheniere’s web page on that pipeline says:\r\n \r\n“of which 94 miles was completed in June 2008, is currently\r\ninterconnected with the Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America,\r\nTranscontinental Gas Pipeline Corporation (Transco), Tennessee Gas\r\nPipeline Company, Florida Gas Transmission Company, Bridgeline\r\nHoldings, L.P., Texas Eastern Gas Transmission (TETCO), and\r\nTrunkline Gas Company (Trunkline).”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n \r\n“is an approximately 11,800-mile pipeline system that transports\r\nnatural gas from Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico and south Texas to\r\nthe northeast section of the United States, including New York City\r\nand Boston.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n \r\nOr does TGP ship gas in the other direction now?\r\n \r\n“As of August 5, 2005, Bridgeline Holdings, L.P. operates as a\r\nsubsidiary of Chevron Corporation.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n \r\nSure, with that kind of interconnection, Cheniere could get its gas from anywhere.\r\nWhich is what Sabal Trail always said, due to this and other such interconnections.\r\n \r\nSo various people in various places in the U.S. get their aquifers trashed\r\nand their lands taken and everything else risked for profit by private\r\ncompany Cheniere, pushed by Lamar Smith’s committee.\r\n \r\nDoes this seem right to you?\r\n \r\nCould it be that alleged representatives who publish such drivel are more of a problem?\r\n \r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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