Cove Point Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Export Terminal

Current Status:: No Status
Jursidiction: National - Department of Energy
Summary: The Sierra Club filed an objection with the Energy Departmen on February 6, 2012, asking that an LNG export facility proposed by Dominion Cove Point in Cove Point, Md., be denied. Specifically, the Sierra Club argues that allowing Marcellus Shale gas to be exported from the facility would raise gas and electricity prices across the country and “expand destructive natural gas fracking.” The group wants DOE to prepare an environmental impact statement to assess the environmental effects of increased fracking in the Marcellus that would come as a result of approving the project. In the filing, the group writes: “DCP entirely fails to acknowledge the significant environmental harms associated with natural gas production and LNG export — harms which are more than substantial enough to outweigh any benefit of export. Moreover, DCP’s proposal is the leading edge of a wave of export proposals, which, considered cumulatively, will significantly exacerbate the harm DCP alone would cause.”
Keywords: LNG, export, hydraulic fracturing
Comment Deadline: 2012.02.06

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