Opponents of LNG projects in Brownsville try delaying tactics

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Activists opposed to three liquefied natural gas terminals at the Port of Brownsville want federal regulators to require companies seeking permits to make their documents available in Spanish.

In a flurry of filings, anti-LNG activists flooded the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission website on Monday with dozens of public comments against Houston-based Texas LNG building an export terminal at the South Texas waterway.

Jim Chapman, executive director of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Group of the Sierra Club, wrote that he and other opponents of the project want more time to review and respond to a 480-page draft environmental impact statement.

One area of concern, Chapman and others wrote in an English-language form letter, is that the draft environmental impact statement is not available in Spanish.

Chapman and the others wrote that the draft environmental impact statement "should be translated and commenting period extended for the Spanish speaking community to adequately review and comment."

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Neighborhoods and communities near the Port of Brownsville are among those with many Spanish speakers.

Cameron County, the county where the proposed project is located, is 89.7 percent Hispanic, U.S. Census Bureau data shows. Some 72.5 percent of Cameron County residents reported that they speak Spanish.
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If the Sierra Club wants it in Spanish it should do the translation itself.  This looks like a bad faith delaying tactic.  I graduated from high school in Cameron County and most people there already speak English.  Some are bilingual.   These facilities will provide badly needed jobs in the Lower Rio Grande Valley which has not enjoyed the same economic growth as the rest of the state has with the shale boom.  This addition to the Port of Brownsville will provide a badly needed economic growth to the region.

It is beyond weird for the Sierra Club to oppose the LNG facilities since they would help reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere.  Since the US began the conversion to natural gas its CO2 emissions have declined more than most of the countries who signed the Paris accords.  The move appears to be by the keep it in the ground extremists who want to push less efficient and less reliable alternative energy project.