Thank you for bringing to the forefront the fact that the proposed LNG importation facility will actually be situated 14 miles off Malibu.
Prior to your breaking news article, each press release/news article about Cabrillo Port that I have read states that the facility will be approximately 22 miles offshore of Oxnard or Port Hueneme or Ventura County. The multiple industry and trade press releases/newswires both nationally and internationally have never once mentioned the “M” word even though the proposed facility would be much closer to Malibu.
Should this repeated and glaring omission raise flags, suspicion, concern and outrage in the Malibu community?
Thanks to you, the truth is out.
Now, it is critical that the Malibu community fully understands the tremendous risks and danger associated with a LNG importation facility. The very first commercial LNG facility built in the United States incinerated approximately one square mile of Cleveland Ohio.
As a community service, I have assembled and documented comprehensive information on the risks and danger of LNG including actual photos, graphics, and news articles on the aforementioned Cleveland Disaster. I also have included a page from the City of Oxnard’s 1977 LNG Environmental Impact Report. The report demonstrates the risk scenario of a typical LNG tanker holding 20 billion gallons of natural gas which, if breached offshore in the channel passing lane, would release gas further inland for 30 miles until reaching the ignitable dispersion level of 5% gas to air-risking 70,000 casualties. Once the vapor cloud reaches its ignitable dispersion level, any spark from a cell phone, car, cigarette, etc., would set off an inferno that would incinerate everyone and everything for approximately 30 miles.
Tim Riley