{"id":20660,"date":"2019-01-10T12:39:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T17:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=20660"},"modified":"2019-01-10T12:39:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T17:39:39","slug":"lng-export-through-georgia-and-florida-presented-to-phmsa-2018-05-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/lng-export-through-georgia-and-florida-presented-to-phmsa-2018-05-16.html","title":{"rendered":"LNG export through Georgia and Florida presented to PHMSA 2018-05-16"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nPHMSA doesn’t have a public map<\/a>\r\nof the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline,\r\nbut it does have a map of U.S. LNG Facilities, including\r\nmany in Georgia and Florida. The source slides include many assertions about safety of LNG trucks and trains, but why should we take any risk for fossil fuel export profit to a few company executives and investors we solar power has no risk of leaks or explosions?\r\n

\r\n\"[Detail:<\/a>\r\n
Detail: U.S. Southeast LNG Facilities<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nI’ve pulled out this detail of the U.S. Southeast,\r\nin which you can clearly see Pivotal LNG’s Alabama, Tennessee, and three Georgia plants marked with green circles as “Peakshavers with Liquefaction”,\r\nas well as Elba Island LNG at Savannah marked with a big red box.\r\nIn Florida, Eagle (Maxville?) LNG at Jacksonville and Hialeah LNG at Miami\r\nare marked with stars as “Emerging LNG facilities”.\r\n

\r\nHere’s the bigger map:\r\n\r\n\r\n

\r\n\"[U.S.<\/a>\r\n
U.S. LNG Facilities<\/a>\r\n
PDF<\/strong><\/a>\r\n
\r\nSource:\r\n\r\nRisk Assessment of Surface Transport of Liquid Natural Gas,<\/a>\r\npresented to PHMSA Office of Hazardous Materials Safety Research and Development Forum May 16, 2018, presented by Cambridge Systematics, Inc., David O. Willauer.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nAnd look on slide 9:\r\n

\r\n\"[New<\/a>\r\n
New Fortress Energy LNG Liquefaction Plant, Hialeah, FL<\/a>\r\n
PDF<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThat’s right, the only LNG export operation in Florida actually exporting,\r\nNew Fortress Energy’s Hialeah LNG, exporting through Port of Miami\r\nand maybe other ports, is featured first.\r\n(Exports by Crowley Maritime from Jacksonville, including of gas\r\ntrucked down I-75 and I-10 through Georgia and Florida,\r\napparently thus far only go to Puerto Rico; see\r\nLNG Monthly (YTD \u2013 through October 2018<\/a>, U.S. DoE Office of Fossil Energy.)\r\n\r\n

\r\nSpeaking of truck routes:\r\n

\r\n\"[U.S.<\/a>\r\n
U.S. LNG Interstate Movements<\/a>\r\n
PDF<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nHere’s detail of the U.S. Southeast:\r\n

\r\n\"[Detail:<\/a>\r\n
Detail: U.S. Southeast LNG Movements<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nTrucking down I-75 to Florida from Pivotal LNG’s operations is shown,\r\nbut in Florida apparently Cambridge Systematics missed the turn onto I-10\r\nto Jacksonville, instead going on down I-75 to Crystal River.\r\nMaybe they were confused by Strom LNG’s authorized (but not yet built)\r\nLNG plant there, which actually proposes to export through Port of Tampa.\r\n

\r\nWhat’s missing from this assertion on slide 23:\r\n

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