CONTACT  PUBLIC OFFICIALS & STOP LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS

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Write Letters to Federal, State and Local Officials RE: LNG Endangering Our American Communities

            It is time for America to abandon its age old reliance on fossil fuel, and it is now time to invest in America and American ingenuity, and create American jobs to develop safe renewable energy sources.

    That you are terribly concerned that dangerous LNG tankers, LNG facilities and their associated high volume, high pressure, industrial-sized gas pipelines would expose our marine sanctuaries and residential communities to unacceptable risks and make us too vulnerable to major industrial accidental disaster or mass destruction caused by human error, earthquake, tsunami or terrorist attack. 

    Remind them of LNG's devastating volatility as exemplified by the Cleveland Disaster and the recent Algerian Disaster.  LNG accidents have happened and will continue to happen no matter how many safety checks are in place. LNG accidents, which can result from a multitude of causes, have overwhelming proportions of uncontrollable devastation.

    Emphasize the offshore LNG proposals are a guinea-pig projects. No such facilities exists on earth. Proposed offshore LNG facilities are untried, untested and unproven, and therefore have a high risk of accident as potentially catastrophic kinks get worked out. LNG has too dangerous a learning curve, and will endanger our lives, homes, marine sanctuaries, sensitive ecosystems, (Channel Islands National Park, and our coastal residential communities from Santa Barbara to Santa Monica.) It is naive to believe the "innovative" offshore proposals will work perfectly and flawlessly the first time out of the box; and it is equally naive to believe they would be impervious to terrorist sabotage.  

    Emphasize that storing approximately 100 million gallons of LNG on a proposed experimental floating regasification and storage unit (FSRU) LNG facility (named "Cabrillo Port," and/or the offloading LNG at the proposed experimental LNG facility at Platform Grace)  -  invites unprecedented disaster.

    Mooring an experimental LNG FSRU for offloading LNG tankers, regasifying and storing LNG; and offloading LNG tankers (and regasifying LNG at the old oil Platform Grace), all in unprotected seas off our shore - is untried - untested - unproven, and would be totally irresponsible.

    (If it concerns you), express your fears that property values would diminish, and homeowners insurance would become unavailable or unaffordable.

    Declare we can't afford the constant security that LNG tankers, platform facilities and pipelines would require or the increase in taxpayer burden for emergency, hospital, transportation and security infrastructure.

    Emphasize that the exclusion security zones that will move along with the LNG tankers and be enforced around the LNG Deepwater Port facilities would disrupt and damage our fishing and resort economy, and coastal quality of life.

    Emphasize that our (California) coastline is very precious and must be protected for future generations; and industrializing it with dangerous LNG facilities is absurd, and would cause irreparable harm (to California's multi-billion dollar resort industry).  

   Unacceptable levels of pollution from tankers and tugboats would also result.

   Emphasize they must not permit / not approve the applications for the LNG facilities (LNG Deepwater Ports).

    [Include other specific points that resonate with you personally, and add other concerns that your localized LNG proposal presents to your particular community.]