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ShellNews.net: PROTECTING THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT OF THE PACIFIC RIM: (CHAPTER 2): "Since 1994, Shell Oil has been spearheading an oil and gas extraction project off the shore of Sakhalin Island, a Russian Island north of Japan. This development will impact the critically endangered Western Pacific Grey Whale...": Posted Wednesday 12 October 2005: 09.30pm EDT

CHAPTER 2: Impacts in California

California is one of the prospective markets for the LNG that is produced from Sakhalin. To read more about the impacts that Sakhalin gas will have on California, and what Californians can do about it, click here.

BOX 2:

Liquid Natural Gas: Not In Anyone's Backyard

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/lng/intro.htm

For the first time in history, California is considering importing Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) to meet what the energy industry is claiming to be a looming energy shortfall. LNG is natural gas that is extracted abroad and chilled to a temperature of -260 degrees Fahrenheit to liquefy. It is loaded onto huge tankers, and brought overseas to import terminals now being proposed along the California and Baja, Mexico coast. Under the proposed plans, the gas would then be "re-gassified," and would be used to generate electricity for the California energy grid.

One of the sources of natural gas would be Sakhalin Island, Russia, where we have been actively supporting grassroots efforts to hold Shell and ExxonMobil to the highest environmental standards in their projects there. In December, 2003, Pacific Environment co-founded Ratepayers for Affordable, Clean Energy (RACE) with other organizations concerned with the dangerous impacts of the LNG import plan.

Click on the links below to learn more!

Lawsuit Demanding Public, Evidentiary Hearings on LNG - Summary of RACE Coalition's lawsuit demanding transparent process on LNG

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/lng/CPUC_EH_lawsuit.htm

 

Liquefied Natural Gas: The Wrong Choice for California - Facts about the Myths and Realities of LNG

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/lng/wrongchoice.htm

 

Liquefied Natural Gas: From the Earth's Depths to Your Home - An interactive tour about what LNG means for you, your community, and for the planet!

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/lng/depths_intro.htm

 

Pacific Environment's Position on LNG

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/lng/position.htm

 

More about Ratepayers for Affordable, Clean Energy

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/lng/race.htm

 

Take Action for Clean Energy in California!

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/lng/takeaction.htm

 

Synapse Energy Economics Report on Gas Supply and Demand in California

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/PDF/addendum%20a%20Synapse%20Energy%20Economics.pdf 

Articles

Voices of Opposition Along the LNG Fast-Track - April 2005

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/lng/voices_lng.htm 

Press Releases

29 August 2005 - Clean Energy Advocates File Lawsuit on LNG’s Environmental Impacts

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/lng/contents.htm

 

11 January 2005 - 44 Leading California Lawmakers Demand Hearings on LNG

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/press/44lawmakers.htm

 

3 September 2004 - In Backroom Deal, CPUC Opens California to LNG

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/lng/cpuc_letterpr.htm

 

9 June 2004 - Environment and Citizen Coalition Demand Day in Court for LNG

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/lng/citizen_coalitionpr.htm

 

25 March 2004 - Citizen Coalition Calls for State Hearings As Feds Move to Force Liquid Natural Gas on California

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/lng/citizen_coalitionpr.htm

 

LNG In The News

Enron Forgotten: Congress may stick us with a natural-gas rip-off - Los Angeles Weekly, May 5 2005

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/lng/enron_forgotten.htm

 

Coalition Doubts Need for LNG Imports - 16 February 2005 – San Diego Union Tribune, 16 February 2005

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050216/news_1b16lng.html

Environmentalists Challenge State on Natural Gas Imports - 16 February 2005 – KPCC Radio Broadcast (Requires Media Player)

Groups Fueling Ad Blitz for LNG - Los Angeles Times, 13 December 2004

http://www.pacificenvironment.org/aboutus/lng_prblitz.htm

 

Liquefied natural gas -- Not in anyone's backyard - San Francisco Chronicle Op-Ed, 2 April 2004

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/02/EDGIM5V25J1.DTL

 

For the Record, Sakhalin II...

Project Risks

ShellNews.net: PROTECTING THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT OF THE PACIFIC RIM: CHAPTER ONE: "Since 1994, Shell Oil has been spearheading an oil and gas extraction project off the shore of Sakhalin Island, a Russian Island north of Japan. This development will impact the critically endangered Western Pacific Grey Whale...": Posted Wednesday 12 October 2005: 09.30pm EDT: READ

ShellNews.net: PROTECTING THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT OF THE PACIFIC RIM: CHAPTER THREE: Posted Wednesday 12 October 2005: 09.30pm EDT: READ

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