LBTS: Decision Nears On Offshore Energy Port

[Charlie99]

Who wants a fire bomb sitting on their doorstep .........

So ..... on WHOSE doorstep should be the LNG terminal that is supplying SE Florida?

NIMBY only works if there is a better place to put it, or at least a place with less political clout that can be forced to accept the problems of the infrastructure while others benefit from it.

 

[DebbyDiver]

It never occurred to me that it could blow up.

My first thoughts, on the other hand, were what would happen to it when a hurricane hits it. A storm that could UPRIGHT the SPIEGEL GROVE could do one HECK of a lot of damage to this operation.

 

[Faust]

OUt of all of the Rig's in the GOM how many do you really think have been destroyed beyond repair during a hurricane ? Or for the matter how many eco-disasters have you heard of happening over the past what 60 years ?

 

[DebbyDiver]

Why don't you Google it up for us and post it here?

And perhaps the sea bottom and other oceanographic characteristics are different here from GoM.

 

[Charlie99]

It never occurred to me that it could blow up.

The real danger is in the LNG on the ships themselves.

The LNG will be vaporized back to normal gaseous natural gas before being piped ashore. The LNG tanker will stay hooked up to the terminal for about a week while its cargo is turned back into gas. The terminal will be able to handle two large tankers simultaneously.

If a hurricane approaches, the ships can go offshore. There isn't any significant natural gas or LNG storage on the terminal itself.

What may happen a few years down the road is that there won't be enough pipeline capacity to bring in natural gas from LA and from the Savannah, GA LGN terminals, and if the Ft Lauderdale terminal shuts down because of an approaching hurrican, then SE Florida may have electrical outages as gas-fired electric power plants have to shut down.