Telling the Department of Energy what to do. Again.
Petition and public comment on LNG export permits
Time to tell the DOE and Biden to follow through and say no to new LNG export permits. Frontline communities have been organizing for years to raise the alarm on the impact these facilities have on their communities.
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The Department of Energy also announced this week that it is taking public comments on its new report on LNG exports.
Excerpts:
“The Natural Gas Act has given the U.S. Secretary of Energy the responsibility to evaluate whether authorizations for the export of liquefied natural gas to non-free-trade-agreement countries is consistent with the “public interest.” [...] I want to take this opportunity to highlight five key findings and considerations that I think are especially relevant to help guide future Secretaries of Energy in making decisions about whether particular applications are in the public interest. Today’s publication reinforces that a business-as-usual approach is neither sustainable nor advisable.
‘DOE analysis exposes a triple-cost increase to U.S. consumers from increasing LNG exports – the increasing domestic price of the natural gas itself, increases in electricity prices (natural gas being a key input in many U.S. power markets), and the increased costs for consumers from the pass-through of higher costs to U.S. manufacturers.
‘Special scrutiny needs to be applied toward very large LNG projects. An LNG project exporting 4 billion cubic feet per day – considering its direct life cycle emissions – would yield more annual greenhouse gas emissions by itself than 141 of the world’s countries each did in 2023.
The CTA is to flood the DOE with responses rejecting new export permits:
Last year I went to DC for the first time to amplify some of my climate friends, we won an LNG permit pause and the DOE agreed to do this LNG study with a climate lens. We have built up so much momentum and pressure, oil industry groups have been panicking as their influence slips away.
Posts from my DC trips:
In other news, I am chatting with my dad about trip plans to help him next year. Thank you to everyone who continues to support the platform and my reconnection with my family and culture.
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