Anti-energy left threatens to stall project to export LNG from Brownsville

Houston Chronicle:
Environmentalists are threatening to file a lawsuit to block a proposed liquefied natural gas export terminal at the Port of Brownsville after the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality decided against holding a special hearing for the project's permit application.

TCEQ commissioners met at the agency's headquarters in Austin on Wednesday morning to decide whether or not to hold a contested case hearing on an air pollution permit application filed by Houston-based NextDecade for the company's Rio Grande LNG project.

NextDecade has been seeking permission from both TCEQ and federal regulators since May 2016 to build a pipeline that will move natural gas from the Agua Dulce hub near Corpus Christi to the Port of Brownsville where the company also wants to build an LNG plant that will liquefy the gas and allow it to be shipped overseas.
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"This is yet another example of the TCEQ rubber-stamping air permits for the fossil fuel industry, but it's not a done deal," Save RGV From LNG organizer Rebekah Hinojosa said in a statement. "Locals, along with allies across the state, will continue to pressure the regulators to deny all permits for Rio Grande LNG."

Gov. Abbott: Texas now an exporter of LNG

NextDecade has yet to receive approval the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the Rio Grande LNG project but that decision is expected to be made in July 2019.

If TCEQ grants an air permit to Rio Grande LNG, the Sierra Club said in a statement that the organization can file a lawsuit against the agency alleging that the permit is deficient under state law. A potential lawsuit, the environmental group reported, could delay construction of the terminal for one to two years.
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The anti-energy left attempts to stall fossil fuel projects in order to drive up the cost of doing business and to push less efficient alternative energy.  In the process, they delay badly needed jobs in areas like the Lower Rio Grande Valley which has not seen the economic growth from the shale revolutions that other areas of the state have.

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