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Liquified Natural Gas – A Threat to Farms

Arctic Discoverer, LNG Carrier

We attended the annual Farmer-Chef Connection event on March 9th, 2009. Brent Foster, an environmental attorney, was the keynote speaker on the topic of LNG, liquefied natural gas, and its threat to farms, wine and fish.

LNG is a fossil fuel that is shipped liquefied. The issues are pollution from the pipelines, damage to land and crops from drilling to install the pipelines and the large energy cost from shipping it liquefied. California and Tijuana have denied pipelines but the debate in Oregon continues.

Since the US is the 6th largest supplier of natural gas in the world, and foreign LNG is 400% more expensive, there doesn’t seem to be much sense in installing new pipelines. There are terminals in Texas that have been built for the purpose of importing but have now proposed exporting to Asia.

To find out more about LNG and what you can do, go to http://oregonfirst.net/.

Tags: farms, LNG