LNG:
More Harm
Than Help

Some quick thoughts and some
hard questions about LNG:

The current Administration wants more natural gas to meet more than current and anticipated demands. The state likewise is leaning in that direction despite the absolute fact that California has no need for additional natural gas supplies. The Administration wants to fuel its hydrogen power program. Power cells and all that. Well, natural gas, by itself, is a cleaner and safer vehicle fuel than processed hydrogen. Go figure!

Some other ponderables:

• The developers promise lower electricity rates should LNG be imported into California. That's a bald-faced lie. If the price of natural gas drops, the LNG operations will fold — there wouldn't be enough profit in it then for them. The proponents' other promises are equally invalid upon serious inspection.

• When they strip methane for hydrogen, what's left? What happens to what's left?

• When LNG spills into the ocean, what happens? Who is sure about this? Can they prove, rather than aver, their answers?

• How would an LNG tanker stand up to fire from an M19-3 40mm Grenade Machine Gun? (Range is 1.5 miles; weapon weighs 72.5#; rate of fire: 350 rounds per minute)

• How would an LNG tanker stand up to fire from an M252 81mm Mortar? (Range is 3.5 miles; rate of fire up to 30 rounds per minute; weapon weighs 90#)

• How would an LNG tanker stand up to fire from shoulder-fired surface-to-surface missiles? (Range generally 3.5 miles; various types and warheads)

• Please note, all the above weaponry can be handled by only two persons riding on a simple raft. Each is readily available on the Black Market.

• U.S. Says 'Thousands' of Missiles Missing

• There are no reliable records of LNG accidents involving ships of foreign registry outside US waters. On the other hand, there are no reported LNG-related accidents of LNG tankers under US registry anywhere in the world. Question is, how many LNG tankers have US registry? Answer: None.

• LNG operations appear safe — at least on the surface — but what records that do publicly exist show many 'incidents' concerning older LNG plants. This is the normal course of human events: Something's been working well for a long time so the worker-bees and their bosses assume all remains o.k. Then the bad stuff happens.

• Likewise, ultra-high-pressure gas pipelines have a similar track record but the length of time between installation and 'incident' is much less. No one responsible for installing these pipelines can be held responsible for such incidents. Local gas authorities, who do hold themselves responsible, do not begin to have deep enough pockets to recompense the damages.