Regulators approve Louisiana natural gas export terminal

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved a natural gas export terminal after reaching a compromise on how to account for the operation’s greenhouse gas emissions.

FERC, a federal body independent of the Trump administration, voted 3 to 1 Thursday night to approve construction of the Calcasieu Pass liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, which Venture Global LNG plans to build in Cameron Parish in coastal Louisiana.

It was the first approval of an LNG terminal in two years, despite a backlog at FERC.

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Democrat Richard Glick had long pushed the commission to consider more of the greenhouse gases for which the project would be responsible, such as those upstream and downstream of the plant itself. The process of liquefying natural gas is energy-intensive and creates a large amount of emissions, but the process of producing and transporting the gas also produced emissions, as does transportation and burning it at its site of eventual use.

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The Trump administration cheered the decision as a move toward allowing more gas export facilities to proceed.

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The USA is becoming a bigger energy exporter every year - and the gulf coast (including the I-10/I-12 corridor in Louisiana) is a big part of that.