Coast Guard expected to approve Yemeni LNG shipments

By adamg on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 1:36pm

Over the objections of city officials, who don't want the risk of ships from a terrorist haven, the Globe reports.

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I'm soooo scared

By Xerxes on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 2:48pm.

Just the other day, I stood within mere feet of a highly explosive material shipped to the United States via a massive ship from Saudi Arabia, the very nation from which the 9/11 terrorists came! Then I finished filling up my gas tank and left.

But hysterical fears aside, downtown does seem like a dumb place to locate a natural gas terminal. Don't they have offshore ports for this kind of thing?

re:

By anon on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 3:30pm.

"Don't they have offshore ports for this kind of thing?"

The LNG would still need to be transported to the mainland somehow...most major ports large enough to accommodate these tankers happen to be in populated areas.

Pipelines

By adamg on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 4:11pm.

I thought the idea was you have these offshore transfer stations, basically, where the gas is pumped into pipelines that are a lot harder to sabotage than, say, a ship.

Even if you sabotage a

By Arborway on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 4:17pm.

Even if you sabotage a pipeline, there is very little danger. Interlocks are always primed and ready to compartmentalize any damage.

With LNG tankers, if anything goes boom, everything goes boom. Everything

Whatever happened to the plan to construct an offshore transfer station?

You're forgetting one big

By anon2 on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 6:20pm.

You're forgetting one big thing,

Cost of that new capital.

LNG isn't about to put that cost on it's shareholders, Boston be damned.

US Congressional Record

By Anonymous on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 8:20pm.

April 21, 2005

Text from US Congressional Record House Floor Arguments over Energy Bill H.R.6 Energy Policy Act of 2005 SEC. 320. LIQUEFACTION OR GASIFICATION NATURAL GAS TERMINALS at page H2344:

Mr. KENNEDY (D., RI) “I will tell my colleagues, in Rhode Island we would welcome the chance to have our gas piped in from some other country because the fact of the matter is, our State knows, as every other State that has an LNG facility knows, that if we were to ever have that explode, it would decimate a 50-mile radius.

We will take our lives over our jobs, over our taxes, over our security.”

Mr. Markey (D., MA,) “If you just want the Federal Government to decide in the middle of your district where this most attractive of all terrorist targets will be located, then you vote ``no,'' but understand the consequences on the floor today.”

Mr. Markey is also the Senior Member of House Homeland Security Committee LINK

Canada, not Saudi Arabia

By Brett on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 5:46pm.

Just the other day, I stood within mere feet of a highly explosive material shipped to the United States via a massive ship from Saudi Arabia

Actually, there's a good chance that gasoline was made from oil that came from Canada.