2024-01-27 03:40:12
Environmental advocates were furious that Joe Biden allowed the Willow, Alaska, oil project to begin in the winter of 2023 and then complete a pipeline through the Appalachian Mountains. Nine months before the presidential election, he is giving them pledges on another issue, projects to export liquefied natural gas from the Gulf of Mexico. New terminal authorizations are frozen until further notice.
Main target, the giant Calcasieu 2 project, in Louisiana, which would become, for 10 billion dollars (9.21 billion euros), the first terminal in the United States. Germany had signed a twenty-year supply agreement linked to Calcasieu 2. “My administration is pausing pending decisions regarding new exports of liquefied natural gas. During the break, we will take a close look at the impacts of exports on costs, energy security and climate change – the existential threat of our time. We are committed to doing things rightdeclared Joe Biden, Friday January 26. While MAGA Republicans [Make America Great Again, slogan de Donald Trump] deliberately deny the urgency of the climate crisis, condemning the American people to a dangerous future, my administration will not be complacent. »
Environmental activists celebrated the decision Friday and canceled a planned Feb. 6-8 protest outside the Energy Department in Washington to demand a halt to new LNG approvals. “We decided to cancel the sit-in because the administration granted our request”Roishetta Ozane, a Louisiana activist opposed to Calcasieu 2, told Bloomberg. According to the Financial Times, the seven operating terminals, mainly in Texas and Louisiana, can produce up to 87 million tonnes per year, enough to satisfy the combined gas needs of Germany and France.
“A victory for Russia”
Five other projects already approved and under construction will add another 63 million tonnes of capacity per year. Seventeen other projects are awaiting permits and should therefore be affected by the Democratic president’s decision. “Biden wants to have young people on his side, who care above all about the climate. They were angry at his stupid approval of the Willow oil project”declared climate activist Bill McKibben, quoted by the AP agency.
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