Penn LNG Terminal
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Penn LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal proposed in Pennsylvania, United States.[1]
Location
The terminal is proposed to be located in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States.[1]
Project details
- Operator:
- Owner: Penn America Energy[1]
- Parent company: Penn America Energy[1]
- Location: Chester, Pennsylvania, United States[1]
- Coordinates: 39.837705, -75.370597 (approximate)
- Capacity: 7 mtpa[2]
- Trains:
- Status: Proposed[1]
- Type: Export[1]
- Financing:
- Associated infrastructure:
Background
Since 2017, Penn America Energy has been quietly working to line up support for a US$6.4 billion LNG project that would export gas from the Marcellus shale. The developers are seeking to build the facility on the Chester waterfront, and have targeted a 60-acre waterfront site now occupied by a warehouse complex.[1]
In August 2022, Natural Gas Intelligence reported that the developers were seeking to pre-file with federal regulators by the end of the year, and that they were anticipating a final investment decision (FID) by 2024.[4]
Chester is an environmental justice community that has suffered from pollution, health problems, and socioeconomic disadvantages. The median household income is less than US$33,000 a year.[2]
In February 2024, WHYY reported that the project's prospects were in limbo following the Biden Administration's announcement of a pause on non-Free Trade Agreement export authorizations for LNG terminals. The CEO of Penn America Energy had already "pumped the breaks" following public opposition, but said that he was still planning to advance the proposal.[5] A month earlier, Chestor's mayor had called the project "dead in the water."[6]
Opposition
According to WHYY, in August 2023, Penn LNG has "faced a torrent of opposition," including at meetings of Philadelphia's LNG Task Force.[1] In April 2023, environmentalists protesting the projects said they were blocked from attending a task force meeting.[7] The founder of Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRCQL) said, “Many were able to build their wealth off of Chester’s economy...Wealth is still being built in Chester. Now only, it is at the price and a cost of our health, our homes being devalued, and our quality of life being diminished.”[8]
A November 2023 article from Environmental Health News described opposition to the project. An incinerator and other industrial facilities have "driven residents indoors or out of town," in "what was once a proud and neighborly community." Childhood asthma rates in the community are over three times the national average. According to Tracy Carluccio, deputy director of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, "There’s no place to put it that is not going to be an unbearable, intolerable burden for the people who live near it."
WHYY reported that the Chestor's mayor was opposed to the project's potential impact on the predominantly-Black community: "It eliminates the possibility of a corporation or an operation coming to town that is not consistent with my vision for the future of the city,” [Mayor] Roots said. Roots referred to the proposed LNG facility as an 'insult' to the predominantly Black city of Chester, assuming the community would accept another polluting industry in exchange for construction jobs."[5]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 A proposed LNG plant in Chester would be gigantic and hardly anyone knows about it. Philadelphia Inquirer. June 14, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 WHYY. Could Delco get a major LNG export terminal? How Biden’s plans to increase LNG exports could clash with its environmental justice goals in Chester. June 16, 2022.
- ↑ Penn America Energy. Timeline. Accessed October 2023.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Natural Gas Intelligence. Proposed Pennsylvania LNG Export Terminal in Talks to Commercialize Project. August 31, 2022.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Chester LNG project hopes to survive despite Biden's pause". WHYY. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
- ↑ "Chester LNG plant 'dead in the water,' according to mayor". Delco Times. 2024-01-28. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
- ↑ The Philadelphia Inquirer. Environmentalists protest being kept out of a meeting about a Philly port for liquefied natural gas. April 20, 2023.
- ↑ WHYY. ‘We will not allow this environmental genocide’: Chester residents unite against Philly LNG task force. August 22, 2023.
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