Advocates
for the development of environmentally sustainable energy facilities in
the US-Mexico border region
Documents
September 20, 2004: Public Radio LNG Debate, Bill Powers, BPPWG, and Don Felsinger, COO of Sempra Energy.
August 2004: DC Navigators campaign strategy against RACE - proposal
August 16, 2004: Congreso de GNL, Tijuana, Baja California
- Sempra Tangguh GNL
- Shell Sakhalin GNL
- Islas Coronado
- Perspectiva de Greenpeace México
- Tecnología y Impactos
- Perspectiva de SEMARNAT
August 13, 2004: SCE comments on SoCalGas 2000-2001 gas price manipulation
June 1, 2004: Global LNG Summit, San Diego
June 1, 2004: Global LNG Summit Presentations
- Overview: LNG and the Californias: Bill Powers, P.E. Border Power Plant Working Group
- Russia: Sakhalin LNG, Shell and Mitsubishi: Rory Cox, Pacific Environment
- Indonesia: Tangguh Sarah Soakai and Chris Pesenti, Pro Peninsula
- Bolivia: Politics of LNG: Jorge Cortes, CEADES (Bolivia)
- Mobile Bay: ExxonMobile: Casi Calloway, Mobile Baykeeper
- LNG in Mexico: Arturo Moreno, Greenpeace Mexico
- Long Beach Harbor and Mitsubishi: Bry Myown, Long Beach Citizens for Utility Reform
- ChevronTexaco: Australia to Baja California: Dr. Alfonso Aguirre, Conservación de Islas (Mexico)
- LNG and California: Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Cliff Chen, Synapse Energy Economics
- LNG Plants and Terminals: Safety and Risk: Dr. Jerry Havens, LNG risk evaluation expert
- Camisea Natural Gas Project: Atossa Soltani, Amazon Watch
January 30, 2004: Institute of the Americas Presentation
January 16, 2004 and November 17, 2003: Long Beach LNG Workshop Presentations
- LNG in Long Beach Harbor - Risk, Air Quality, and Natural Gas Pricing - B. Powers
- ARB NOx and PM10 Diesel Emission Projections, 2001 - 2008 (ARB 2001 presentation)
- SoCalGas/SDGE Natural Gas Demand Projection, 2006 - 2016 - (SoCalGas/SDGE paper presented at CPUC/CEC Dec. 2003 natural gas demand workshop)
- Long Beach LNG - Technology Options and Financial Issues - B. Powers (11/17/03)
- Fire Radiation and Flammable Vapor Cloud Drift Maps - Vallejo LNG Safety Risk Results Overlaid on Long Beach Harbor - E. Ducharme (01/16/04 and 11/17/03)
September 12, 2003: Baja LNG Workshop Presentations, San Diego
- Energy Facilities and the Baja Community - C. Garcia Zendejas
- Energía y Ciudadanos - C. Garcia Zendejas
- Unique Plant Ecology of Costa Azul (Baja Coast) - C. Leyva (Spanish)
- Vallejo Experience with LNG Terminal Siting - E. Ducharme
- Baja LNG Technology and Financial Issues - B. Powers
- Costa Azul: Un paisaje cultural bajo amenaza - M. Wilken
- Baja Norte Pipeline Construction and Impact on Native Cultural Sites - M. Wilken
- Baja Norte Pipeline construction photos - M. Wilken
Actions related to dry cooling at Palomar Energy Project:
- August 6, 2003 BPPWG comment letter on Commission Adoption Order
- July 24, 2003 environmental coalition comment letter on preliminary decision
Actions related to cooling system at Morro Bay Modernization Project:
- June 30, 2003 addendum comment letter to CEC on preliminary decision
- June 25, 2003 Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante dry cooling support letter
- June 13, 2003 environmental coalition comment letter on cooling system
Actions related to U.S. Coast Guard permitting of first offshore LNG terminal:
DOE Border Powerplant Lawsuit Documents
- Court order requiring DOE to provide FEIS administrative record to BPPWG, February 1, 2005
- BPPWG comments on DOE Final EIS, July 12, 2004
- Intergen Gives In, Unplugs Turbine, San Diego UT, Jan. 17, 2004
- Sen. Feinstein/Cong. Hunter letter to Intergen CEO, Dec. 24, 2003
- Earthjustice letter to Dept. of Justice regarding turbine w/o SCR, Dec. 19, 2003
- BPPWG scoping comments for DOE EIS, Attachments A, B, and C, Dec. 1, 2003
- Talks focus on emissions from Mexican power plants, San Diego UT, Nov. 22, 2003
- DOE EIS scoping workshop announcement - Federal Register, Oct. 30, 2003
- August 2003 analysis by power industry trade publication on impact of lawsuit decision on border power plant design
- June 16, 2003 Federal district court order: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
- DOE Environmental Assessment for Intergen and Sempra border plants
- May 3, 2003 summary judgement in favor of BPPWG
Baja LNG Terminal Documents
- Mexican agency warns of potential for LNG disaster, San Diego U-T, Jan. 23, 2004
- Study talks of possible LNG disaster as result of accident, Mobile Register, Dec. 7, 2003
- Holes in LNG Study, Mobile Register, Dec. 4, 2003
- Move ExxonMobil's LNG plant offshore, Mobile Register, Nov. 30, 2003
- Congress Wanted LNG Plants at "Remote" Sites, Mobile Register, Nov. 16, 2003
- Scientists Challenge DOE LNG Safety Study, Mobile Register, Oct. 19, 2003
- Experts Clash on LNG Fire Impacts, Mobile Register, Sept. 21, 2003
- LNG Security - Report to Congress, Sept. 9, 2003, Congressional Research Service
- LNG Terminal for Mobile Bay - Good Value or Bad Risk? Mobile Register, August 2003
- BHP Billiton offshore LNG terminal project description, September 2003
- Sempra pulls ahead in LNG race, August 2003 California Energy Circuit article
- Terrorism: Ready to Blow? - August 2003 LNG article, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Política de GTTF - Termoeléctricas y GNL - junio 2003 (Spanish)
- Baja coalition perspective on LNG terminals - April 2003
- Assessment of impacts of Boston Harbor LNG tanker fire - March 2003
- LNG terminal white paper - 2002: English, Spanish.
DOE Assessments of LNG Accident Impacts
- DOE LNG accident impact presentation, February 2002
- Results of LNG tanker and storage tank accident modeling, October 2001, Quest Consultants for DOE
- Review of LNG accident modeling protocols and studies, October 2001, Quest Consultants for DOE