Business, Labor back LNG Terminal in Ventura

The Coalition of Business, Agriculture and Labor (COLAB) is backing the development of a liquefied natural gas terminal proposed in Ventura County. Its head, Andy Caldwell writes in the Lompoc Record:

A couple of different companies are proposing some projects that will bring a fresh supply of natural gas to California. One project proposes to build a barge-type structure that will be located more than 10 miles off the coastline of Ventura, far from the Marine Sanctuary and the shipping lanes. This project, called the Cabrillo port, plans on shipping liquefied natural gas to the barge and then piping it ashore.

It should come as no surprise that the folks at the Environmental Defense Center, with support from Congresswoman Lois Capps, are bad-mouthing the project any way they can, despite the fact that natural gas is slated to become one of the most important alternatives to oil and is considered a superior fuel with respect to the fact that it generates less environmental impacts than does oil.

Consider the fact that the folks at the EDC and Ms. Capps live in homes that need to be heated and they drive cars that need a fuel source. They fly in planes. They cook their food. They use electricity, oil, gasoline and natural gas just like the rest of us. Just where do they think we are going to get the resources that they themselves demand every day if they continue to oppose every means of production?

We only have a few sources of energy that are sufficient to meet the needs of our society. Unfortunately, we have cut off our nose in spite of our face.