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What Others Say
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natural gas and California's need for clean energy?
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California Energy Commission
"An
important addition to natural gas infrastructure is
the construction of liquefied natural gas import facilities. These
facilities will help meet California's additional
natural gas needs. The cost of delivering
natural gas to the West Coast via a liquefied natural
gas project is well below the market prices that California
pays at its borders (for natural gas) and could have
a dramatic effect on the market prices in the state."
The Washington Times
"…the
United States cannot tap these vast overseas reserves
until it drastically increases its ability to import
liquefied natural gas. At its overseas production source,
gas is cooled to minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, when
it becomes liquid. LNG can then be transported by ship
to terminals where it can be converted to gas and shipped
via pipeline. Presently, the United States has four
LNG terminals. Many more will be needed to accommodate
the level of imported LNG that the Energy Information
Administration says will be necessary to meet its projected
U.S. demand for natural gas in 2025."
Los Angeles Times
"Rising
fuel prices and demand make importing more natural
gas an economic necessity; natural gas is also a much
cleaner fuel than coal or petroleum, so more imports
are environmentally desirable as well."
Mercury News
"California
has to find a way to import more natural gas. Nowhere
near enough gas – only 13 percent of what we
use – is found naturally here. The state has
to import not just from other states and Canada, but
from overseas. The way to import natural gas is to
super cool it to liquid, put it on ships and unload
it at terminals in California, where it would be returned
to gaseous state and put into pipelines."
Alan Greenspan, former Chairman,
The Federal Reserve Board
"…our
limited capacity to import liquefied natural gas (LNG)
effectively restricts our access to the world's abundant
supplies of gas… [W]e cannot, on the one
hand, encourage the use of environmentally desirable
natural gas in this country while being conflicted
on larger imports of LNG. Such contradictions are resolved
only by debilitating spikes in price… Access
to world natural gas supplies will require a major
expansion of LNG terminal import capacity. Without
the flexibility such facilities will impart, imbalances
in supply and demand must inevitably engender price volatility."
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
"LNG
is odorless, colorless, non-corrosive, and nontoxic."
NRDC
"With
careful siting, the greater price stability that LNG
offers could help avoid increased reliance on dirtier
fuels for electric generation and other purposes. In
addition, NRDC recognizes the value of natural gas,
in both compressed and liquefied form, as a relatively
clean alternative fuel for vehicles."
“NRDC
has helped show that compressed natural gas
is an affordable, cleaner alternative fuel for buses
and some trucks; thousands of these vehicles
are now on the roads."
"The
diesel engines used on America's farms, construction
sites, ports, airports and for other "non-road" uses
are some of the dirtiest diesels anywhere, spewing
out more asthma-attack-inducing soot particles than
all of the nation's buses and trucks combined. But
a clean solution is in sight: the same advances in
fuel and engine design that work for buses and trucks
should work for heavy diesel equipment, too. In some
cases, natural gas may even provide the cleanest
alternative – cutting toxic and other emissions
below what is currently possible with today's diesel
fuel and engines.”
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