US public's resistance to LNG terminals is confounding industry

Dallas (Platts)--10Nov2004

Public resistance in the US to new liquefied natural gas terminals has become
so intense and widespread that industry officials are increasingly uncertain
about how to overcome it, several speakers told a Dallas conference Tuesday.
While expressing optimism that the new Congress will pass legislation to boost
domestic gas supplies, panelists at the American Gas Foundation's Executive
Roundtable said external pressures may wind up trumping any benefits of
government action. "Frankly, it scares me," Robert Bryngelson, vice president
of Excelerate Energy, said of the opposition to LNG terminals. "Projects are
simply not progressing quickly enough. Getting over the goal line and getting
these projects done is almost impossible." Bryngelson said that while "[t]here
are plenty of [LNG] suppliers out there that are hungry for the US market,
they don't know what project to back." Randall Parr of LNG terminal developer
Cheniere Energy shared Bryngelson's views on the growing problem of local
opposition.

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