LNG HEATS UP AND GOES COLD AGAIN

How crazy is this? I've been getting geared up to fight another off-shore, open-loop LNG terminal in the Gulf of Mexico. This terminal, proposed by ConocoPhillips, would be 50 miles off Galveston Texas, in some hot fishing waters, and could have killed the equivalent of 16% of Texas' annual redfish catch by sucking in hundreds of millions of gallons of Gulf seawater loaded with fish eggs and zooplankton, before spitting the water, chilled, chlorinated and lifeless back into the Gulf.

We were concerned.

And then this hits the federal docket:So, after paying environmental contractors to put together some 1,300 pages of analysis showing why their terminal is the best thing to hit the Gulf since Spindletop, they're jerking their application?

This makes no sense. Did they finally realize that Louisiana's Governor Kathleen Blanco wasn't just whistling Dixie when she said she wasn't going to permit any further open-loop terminals in the Gulf? Did they JUST realize that Louisiana was an adjacent coastal state for their terminal, giving the Gov a veto opportunity?

I don't know - but I'm relieved.

Aaron Viles is the GRN's Campaign Director