LNG tankers will float past Salem's Nuke? EIS meeting is scheduled for June 9th @ the Holiday Inn Claymont, Delaware. The meeting is being hosted and the EIS is being prepared by Federal Energy Commission (FERC). Written comments are being excepted until June 21, 2004. Note: Even if DNREC does not issue a permit (dock is Delaware jurisdiction) FERC can still approve --they are looking for legislation to standardize the siting process for future LNG locations. How about they require no tankers to float within 1.5 miles of an active nuclear reactor?

Download the pdf from DNREC: http://www.phl-caw.org/weblog/bpferc.pdf


I want to know how they are going to float that stuff past Salem's Nuke? FYI had a long conversation about 2 weeks ago a with member of PHL EIS dream team (NOAA). She is very concerned about the floating gas bombs as well. She also mentioned that BP has all the answers to the questions -- but the one I ask above. The LNG tankers would have hold the coastline of Delaware in order to minimize damage to the Salem reactors if something did go wrong. That type of target LNG/Nuke combo is World Trade Center in size and we all thought the twin towers would never come down.


This artist's rendering shows the $500 million terminal BP wants to build in Logan.
The plant and tankers would be less than 1 mile from Philadelphia Pike.


Coast Guard in Boston Harbor protecting LNG tanker.
Boston will not be receiving it's shipment of LNG during the
Democratic Convention this summer -- but it is O.K. for tankers to float past
Salem twice a week?


Material like this (in my opinion) needs to be set up further out in the Delaware Bay away from people and piped on shore like in Louisiana. I do not think the people of Delaware or NJ would fight a good common sense low risk plan for LNG. It would just cost BP more to build the pipe. What's another 100 million among friends? The state of Delaware should be proactive and offer the alternative to put it out in the Delaware Bay. We do need the clean energy supplies.

Stephen Donato
www.phl-caw.org


Comments from Delaware News Journal Blog below:

http://www.delawareonline.com/blogs/2004/05/massive-floating-bomb-update.html


February (2003), the FBI warned that al-Qaeda operatives "may attempt to launch conventional attacks against the U.S. nuclear/chemical-industrial infrastructure to cause contamination, disruption and terror."

On the East Coast, the Philadelphia region has the highest concentration of facilities that could endanger more than a million people. Four are in Gloucester County. There is one each in Salem and Delaware Counties. Two are in Philadelphia.

More than four million people - or 86 percent of the population of the eight-county region - could be exposed.

www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/5672176.htm



Foes of LNG development point to the fact that the potential energy content of a single LNG tanker, which contains natural gas that is supercooled to 260 degrees Fahrenheit and concentrated to 1/600th of its normal gaseous volume, is equivalent to 700 tons of TNT or about 55 times the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.


"But NOAA's study, a summary of which was obtained by the Boston Herald, generally sides with a more devastating scenario long portrayed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor emeritus James Fay, said Bill Lehr, a researcher on the NOAA study."

"Fay, whose work has frequently come under bitter attack by industry groups, has warned that a strike against an LNG tanker - such as the boat bomb used against the USS Cole in 2000 - could spark a huge inferno that would kill and scorch nearby residents, set waterfront buildings ablaze and shoot searing electromagnetic waves into neighborhoods that could spark even more fires. ”

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:Coast Guard taking river security seriously   ¶ 6/07/2004