The usual “progressive” green suspects, including the Sierra
Club, Friends of the Earth and 350.org, have sent a letter to Pres. Obama
urging him to require a petty, partisan Keystone-XL-style environmental review,
with similar needless delays, for the proposed Cove Point, Maryland liquefied
natural gas (LNG) export terminal. The typical hyperbolic eco-rhetoric is
calculated to fund raise and rev up the eco-groups’ obstructive activist bases
without any patriotic consideration for greater American prosperity or energy
independence.
Recent geopolitical adventures and energy competition
have leaders across the political spectrum focused on LNG exports as a strategy
for countering Russian leverage over its European energy buyers in the
aftermath of President Putin’s seizure of Crimea. Moderate commentary
identifies the Keystone XL pipeline is the wrong battle for environmentalists,
and that eco-groups objecting to LNG exports now is an even more perverse and
subversive green obstruction…….To Read More……
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