shale gas export boom - planned all along?

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http://www.nationofchange.org/shale-gas-export-boom-planned-all-along-1336138346

The race is on, full-steam ahead for the United States shale gas industry in its quest to pipe and export gas obtained via the hydraulic fracturing process to lucrative global markets.

On April 16, Cheniere Energy Inc. became the first corporation in the United States to receive approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the global market from its Sabine Pass LNG terminal, located in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.

Sabine Pass was the first of several U.S.-based LNG terminals awaiting FERC LNG export licenses to receive the go-ahead.

Nearly all of these terminals were originally designed and permitted as LNG import terminals and all began construction or were bought in the early- to mid-2000s. Project developers now say they are seeking export licenses in response to changing market conditions, namely the shale gas boom.

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1. Great article

This shows the machiavellian collusion between politics,energy and media. The time horizon in these areas is so vast that avg. people don't notice the "small incremental" changes that allow this happen. When it is brought to fruition it is spun as "thank God people who are smarter than us have managed to cobbel together this amazingly disparate, convoluted solution to fillintheblank crisis." As one of the stupid little people horde it PISSES ME OFF! By the time I educate myself, unravel the web I'm so far behind the curve, it's already a done deal. It's depressing. Happy birthday Joseph Heller!

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2. Fracking Bastards!

So much for the clean energy meeting our needs.