Trump’s ‘energy emergency’ could fast-track massive expansion of Plaquemines LNG export terminal
The $18 billion project could damage up to 470 acres of wetlands as the terminal seeks to more than double its capacity, Army Corps estimates.
- Following a 'national energy emergency' declared last year by President Donald Trump, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is fast-tracking the expansion of the Plaquemines LNG terminal in Louisiana.
- The agency cut the public comment period to 10 days, allowing the facility to double in size from nearly 590 acres to about 1,220 while increasing production capacity from 1.4 trillion to around 2.3 trillion cubic feet of gas annually.
- With Plaquemines Parish losing more than 250 square miles of land over the past 60 years, environmentalists warn the project could damage up to 470 acres of wetlands in a region already suffering from a coastal crisis.
- Healthy Gulf senior policy director Matt Rota noted the facility is permitted to release 8.1 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, stating, 'Destroying 400 more acres in Plaquemines Parish is ridiculous.'
- Critics like Griffin Bird, a research analyst with the Environmental Integrity Project, question how the expansion helps domestic energy independence, despite arguments from local leaders that it will spur economic activity.
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Trump’s ‘energy emergency’ could fast-track massive expansion of Plaquemines LNG export terminal
Less than two years after opening, a liquefied natural gas terminal near New Orleans is seeking a multi-billion-dollar expansion under a new Trump administration “emergency” permitting process that shortens environmental review and may weaken protections for surrounding wetlands and waterways.
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