Russia’s Sakhalin Island

In the Pacific Northwest, NW Natural Gas claims that the Palomar pipeline and Bradwood Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal will bring “clean” fuel to the United States. But the truth is the real impacts of LNG importation are enormous, and extend far beyond the Pacific Northwest. LNG threatens to harm Oregon’s economy and environment and the impacts of LNG are huge even before the fuel reaches Oregon’s shores. Far from being “clean”, the environmental and social impacts of the full LNG supply chain show LNG is a dirty, costly fuel. This is the first post of a series highlighting the global impacts of LNG, which strongly resemble the global impacts of oil production. Is LNG going to be “the new Foreign Fossil Fuel”?

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Photo by Pacific Environment

In January of 2005, representatives of local indigenous groups on Sakhalin Island, Russia, were so outraged by the damage to their community and their fishery caused by pipelines for LNG exports, they blockaded construction sites. Their outrage was directed at the Sakhalin II LNG export project, a potential source of LNG for proposed LNG import terminals in Oregon.

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An ExxonMobil UK advertisement for LNG was recently banned in the UK because it claims that LNG is one of the world’s cleanest fuel. The UK’s media watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority, received complaints that the ad was misleading because LNG is not one of the cleanest fuels because, “it was a major contributor to carbon emissions and was not therefore environmentally friendly.”

ASA upheld the complaints and stated “the ad must not be broadcast again” because,

“we concluded that the ad misleadingly implied that natural gas was one of the cleanest sources of energy and that liquefied natural gas was environmentally friendly”.

You know LNG isn’t clean.

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Students from Southern Oregon University to Mt. Hood Community College oppose the BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL project on the West Coast. If you are a student, or know someone who is, make sure to share this link and take action against LNG.

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