Nopetro LNG Terminal
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Nopetro LNG Terminal was a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal proposed in Florida, United States. The project was cancelled in July 2023.[1]
Location
The terminal was proposed to be located in Port St. Joe, Florida, United States.[1]
Project details
- Operator: Nopetro Energy[1]
- Owner: Nopetro Energy[1]
- Parent company: Nopetro Energy[1]
- Location: Port St. Joe, Florida, United States[1]
- Coordinates: 29.819501, -85.310654 (approximate)
- Capacity: 3.86 billion cubic feet per year (0.08 mtpa)[1]
- Trains:
- Status: Cancelled[1]
- Type: Export[1]
- Start year: 2024[2]
- Cost: US$100 million[1]
- Financing:
- FID status: Pre-FID[1]
- Associated infrastructure:
Background
In 2021, Miami-based Nopetro Energy announced that it planned to build an LNG export plant near Port St. Joe in Florida, United States. The site was a 60-acre waterfront lot that had previously been occupied by the town’s paper mill, a mile away from a historically Black neighborhood in Port St. Joe that had already lived with environmental pollution from the mill. Nopetro Energy would have exported 3.86 billion cubic feet per year (0.08 mtpa) from the facility with target markets in the Caribbean and Central and South America.[1]
Opposition and Cancellation
Beginning in May 2021, Public Citizen and several local residents filed a lawsuit against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which had declined to regulate the project because of the facility's size and layout.[3] Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen noted that the design of the facility, with a 1329 foot separation between the liquefaction terminal and shoreline, was likely intended to evade FERC regulation.[4]
According to Inside Climate News, "the proposed LNG plant has generated widespread opposition, among Black and white residents." In the words of a community activist in Port St Joe, “Our cultural burden for environmental injustice was already at the highest that we thought it could be,” he said, “and now they’re going to put this on top of that?”[4]
In July 2023, Nopetro decided to cancel the project, "purely due to market conditions," a representative told Canary Media. Following a year of resistance from community activitists such as County Citizens Coalition for a Healthy Future, activists considered the plant's cancellation a victory.[1]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 "Gas developer hits brakes on hotly contested LNG terminal". Canary Media. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
- ↑ Sierra Club. US LNG Export Tracker. Accessed October 2023.
- ↑ Wendy Weitzel (2023-04-06). "FERC defends refusal to regulate proposed Nopetro LNG facility - The Port St. Joe Star". The Port St. Joe Star. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Katelyn Weisbrod (2023-05-07). "In the Florida Panhandle, a Black Community's Progress Is Threatened by a Proposed Liquified Natural Gas Plant - Inside Climate News". Inside Climate News. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
