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"To witness how the United States has become the world’s unchallenged oil and
gas behemoth is to contemplate the scene from John Allaire’s home, situated on
a small spit of coastal land on the fraying, pancake-flat western flank of
Louisiana.
Allaire’s looming neighbor, barely a mile east across a ship channel that has
been pushed into the Gulf of Mexico, is a hulking liquified natural gas (or
LNG) plant, served by leviathan ships shuttling its chilled cargo overseas.
Another such terminal lies a few miles to the west, yet another to the north.
The theme continues even in Allaire’s seaward vista – alongside a boneyard of
old oil rigs, a new floating offshore LNG platform is in the works.
“I’m pretty much surrounded,” said Allaire, a retired oil industry engineer who
has a trailer, a couple of friendly dogs, and a patch of marshland and beach in
Cameron parish. Yet another gas export plant is planned just a few hundred
yards from Allaire’s property, while his existing imposing neighbor, which
Allaire compares to Las Vegas due to its incandescent flaring of gas into the
night’s sky, is on track to expand to become one of the largest such facilities
in the world.
“We don’t really have a Gulf coast in the US,” said Allaire. “We have the east
coast, the west coast and the carbon coast. This is simply a sacrifice zone for
the oil and gas industry.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
