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Fossil Fuel Firms Use Permitting Loopholes to Fast-Track LNG Export Projects Near Black Communities

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Now, Ivor van Heerden , the former deputy director of Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center, is concerned about the disastrous and potentially lethal consequences of a hurricane hitting a liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal under construction south of New Orleans.

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A Window into Louisiana’s Continued Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry

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.” Heerden was hired by three Louisiana-based environmental groups — The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ), Sierra Club, and Healthy Gulf — that are suing the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources for exempting Venture Global LNG from needing a coastal use permit to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal.

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Louisiana LNG Could Be ‘Nail in the Coffin’ for Local Fishermen

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By ships, Dyson is referring to the massive tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG). Many LNG terminals were built with the aim of shipping the tidal wave of cheap American shale gas overseas, a trend that was supercharged after Russia’s war in Ukraine, which sent global LNG prices skyrocketing. Fishermen are down, brother.

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

After the Army Corps of Engineers awarded key permits for the MBSD project on December 19, 2022 , two nonprofit organizations entrusted with funds meant to reverse environmental damage caused by the 2010 BP oil spill made funding available for the project. Both are reliant on a steady stream of cheap natural gas.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Join me on this quest in which we start by looking into how the Arctic is doing, before making an overview of predictions on ‘when everything is gone’ by various renowned organizations. Sea level rising (not because of melting). How is the Arctic doing? But what year is it?! All bets are off on this one. Lot’s of Methane.

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss. one that poses serious threats for both our near and long-term future. The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record.