By Port of Brownsville
“Today’s announcement is another significant milestone in making these energy projects a reality and is the result of years of hard work by the applicants,” said John Reed, Chairman of the Brownsville Navigation District.
“We’d like to thank FERC for its effort and diligence in reviewing these proposals and thank our community for their support. These new energy projects reflect our long-term strategy and vision for the port to be a catalyst for economic growth in the Rio Grande Valley by encouraging domestic and international business investments and driving developments that create new good paying job opportunities for the region.”
Texas LNG Brownsville LLC, Annova LNG Brownsville, Rio Grande LNG LLC, and Rio Bravo Pipeline Company LLC represent a total investment of $38.75 billion in Cameron County and the Rio Grande Valley and will add thousands of job opportunities leading to significant economic progress in the region.
“The fact that the Port of Brownsville was sought out and chosen for these three LNG projects is a testament to our strategic location and Brownsville’s important role in both the energy industry and international trade,” said Eduardo A. Campirano, Port Director and CEO. “FERC’s confidence in these projects, demonstrated by today’s approval is very important. The federal commission’s evaluation process ensures that the plants must operate within the design parameters for safety and environmental protection.”
The next step in the process are final investment decisions (FID) to be made by the applicants, which would be as early as the first quarter of next year. Once FIDs are announced and the projects formally break ground, the region will be poised for new and diverse job opportunities.
The port’s location along with strategic investments in enhanced infrastructure have turned the Port of Brownsville into a major center for large scale industrial development and a hub of economic activity, with more than 200 companies doing business at the port. The port is fueling job growth in the region and across the state.
Texas LNG Brownsville LLC, Annova LNG Brownsville, Rio Grande LNG LLC, and Rio Bravo Pipeline Company LLC represent a total investment of $38.75 billion in Cameron County and the Rio Grande Valley and will add thousands of job opportunities leading to significant economic progress in the region.
“The fact that the Port of Brownsville was sought out and chosen for these three LNG projects is a testament to our strategic location and Brownsville’s important role in both the energy industry and international trade,” said Eduardo A. Campirano, Port Director and CEO. “FERC’s confidence in these projects, demonstrated by today’s approval is very important. The federal commission’s evaluation process ensures that the plants must operate within the design parameters for safety and environmental protection.”
The next step in the process are final investment decisions (FID) to be made by the applicants, which would be as early as the first quarter of next year. Once FIDs are announced and the projects formally break ground, the region will be poised for new and diverse job opportunities.
The port’s location along with strategic investments in enhanced infrastructure have turned the Port of Brownsville into a major center for large scale industrial development and a hub of economic activity, with more than 200 companies doing business at the port. The port is fueling job growth in the region and across the state.
In fact, in 2018, more than 51,000 jobs in Texas were directly or indirectly supported by activity at the port. Furthermore, the Port of Brownsville is taking on an increasingly important role in international trade. Last year, the port’s Foreign Trade Zone ranked second in the U.S. for the value of exports and has consistently ranked in the top three out of 293 FTZs nationwide since 2013.
6 comments:
The Port of Brownsville will keep growing if Texas Southmost College gets the Hell out of the way. Those whiners will only hold it back. Know what I'm talking about.
Ha suck it up snowflakes! F U anti RGV LNG outsiders. You just got your asses handed to you. Great news for the Valley. Great jobs on the way! You fucking unemployable geezers got taught a lesson. Return to the north now.
Time for the Port to do like BIG ports throughout the country and build the people a training center.
turning away the leading workforce trainers from a&m was Not real good move.
Who turned them away? we need training now...city or port leaders?
Good news indeed. If the "green liberals" had their way, we would still be riding horses and lighting our houses with candles.
The Port of Brownsville Commissioners and others are celebrating FERC's approval of the LNG 3.
But let's take a deeper look at NextDecade's Rio Grande LNG and the FERC permit it just got.
Some things NextDecade really doesn't want to talk about include:
The fact that its FERC permit, like the ones issued to Annova LNG and Texas LNG, was approved on a vote of 2 to 1 instead of 3 to 0, was approved with 143 conditions, and includes Commissioner Glick's dissenting opinion citing the reasons he believes the permit should not have been issued.
The doubtfulness of its Inisfree FSRU project with the Irish Port of Cork, given the resolution the Cork City Council passed 11-11-2019 demanding that the Port of Cork to dissolve the deal, the County of Cork scheduled to do the same on 11-25-2019, and a question about whether or not the deal's even legal under Ireland's ban on fracking.
The fact that NextDecade's Galveston Bay LNG project has remained on hold since around February 2019. It held two Open Houses on the project located 40 miles from downtown Houston in January 2019 and FERC told it that it could schedule the required Public Scoping Meeting on the project as early as April 2019 if NextDecade provided the required information in a timely manner. But NextDecade's been too busy fighting to keep its Rio Grande LNG project here alive to devote any of its resources to its Galveston Bay LNG project.
The fact that on 09-25-2019 Texas Rural Legal Aide RGV, on behalf of the Shrimpers and Fishermen of the RGV and the Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera group filed a petition in the US 5th Court of Appeal/s asking the Court to order TCEQ to reconsider its dismissals of the two group's requests for Contested Hearings regarding Rio Grande LNG's TCEQ air permit application (Case 19-60558).
[Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera = Neighbors for the Well-Being of the Coastal Community, a community group based in the Laguna Heights neighborhood in Port Isabel]
And the complicated fact that NextDecade plans to build to build its Rio Grande LNG LNG liquefaction trains to produce more LNG per train than stated in its April 2019 Final Environmental Impact Statement.
It wants investors to know about its plans because it makes the company look good to investors.
But it doesn't want us to know about this because it means Rio Grande LNG will be putting even more pollution into our air than we've been told so far -- 24 hours a day, every day, for 30 to 50 years. Producing a lot of birth defects, asthma, diabetes, Alzheimer's dementia, strokes, and cancer here as well as LNG.
But it doesn't want investors to know that it will have to go regulatory processes to get DOE and FERC permission to increase the amount of LNG. Because getting that permission will take time and money. While investors want to get rich now.
CONCLUSION: LNG not only stands for Liquefied Natural Gas, it also stand for Lies 'n' Greed.
CONCLUSION: The Port of Brownsville Commissioners and others don't want to talk about any of this either. Instead they fully support Lies 'n' Greed - at least as long as they think LNG is as good for us as it is for them.
John Young, MS (Psychology), MSW (Social Work), Retired
San Benito TX
A member of SAVE RGV from LNG since May 2014
https://www.facebook.com/saveRGVfromLNG/
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