Another warning today from scientific blogger ESG Hound about environmentally threatening developments at Elon Musk's operation at Boca Chica. The concern is a natural gas plant, LNG unit, gas fractionation plant and miles of high pressure gas lines, all in close proximity.
But, then, as Musk once flippantly said: ""We've got a lot of land with nobody around. So, if it blows up, it's cool."
Here's a quote from ESG Hound's latest article on SpaceX:
Forget the Rockets. SpaceX and the FAA used an “insignificant environmental impact” determination in NEPA to try to sneak the construction of a Utility Sized Power Plant, A Natural Gas Plant, an LNG unit, miles of High Pressure Gas Pipeline, and the Development of Countless new Oil and Gas Wells right under our noses.
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| 250 Megawatt Natural Gas Plant at Wallingford, Connecticut |
The Pipelines aren’t even mentioned, once, in the environmental impacts document despite the obvious need for them. Neither are the implied hundreds of Gas wells that must be drilled and fracked. So I guess you could forgive the press for not focusing on these.
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| Elba Island LNG Plant |
But what is mentioned, explicitly, in the PEA is:
A 250 Megawatt natural gas power plant, large enough to power 100,000 homes
An LNG unit (Running methane refined from natural gas through a Cryogenic liquefier is a Liquid Natural Gas/LNG process by definition)
A natural gas fractionation plant of undisclosed capacity
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| Natural Gas Fractionation Plant |
Let’s look at any one of these proposed facilities. Now imagine if Chevron had tried to develop just a single LNG unit on federal land and conspired with the Department of Energy to claim this was an “insignificant environmental impact.” Now imagine they tried to rush it through approval during a short public comment window, while conveniently never calling it an LNG unit, but rather a “Methane Fuel Liquefier.” Can you imagine the outrage?
Addendum: Don't forget miles of high pressure gas pipeline needed to feed these plants.
This blogger is garbage. If they intend to LNG then he does not need new wells. The LNG is already in the process of coming into the port. Given this obvious contradiction in his claims, I call pure BS on everything he writes.
ReplyDeleteIf what this blogger writes is such garbage and BS, why do you bother reading and commenting? What does this say about you? TROLL!
ReplyDeleteYou have to read to determine if it is garbage. How would you know if you don't read it. Reading something and not agreeing with it doesn't make you a troll.
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