A company planning to build a massive liquefied natural gas export facility near Brownsville says carbon capture technology will reduce its pollution, but some locals say it’s a “Band-Aid on a bullet hole.”
Activists protest against a planned LNG export terminal near Port Isabel. NextDecade claims the terminal will be the"greenest in the world," but opponents say its carbon capture plans will negate only a tiny fraction of its climate impact.
For Nuñez and her friends, the fight against the project — known as Rio Grande LNG — is about protecting their community from air pollution; preserving shrimping and tourism; and defending habitats for pelicans, endangered ocelots and aplomado falcons at the project site on unspoiled wetlands between Port Isabel and the larger city of Brownsville.
“This is a poor community, yes. We’re not saying we don’t need jobs,” Nuñez said, shortly before the meeting of volunteers with the Neighbors for the Wellness of the Coastal Community group, known in Spanish as Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera. “But we don’t need work that affects the environment and, ultimately, the health of the community.”
These claims hinge on a proposal by NextDecade to use CCS to capture more than 5 million tons a year of the carbon dioxide produced during the process of supercooling the gas for loading on to specialized tankers for export. The company says it will be one of the biggest CCS systems in North America — and the first LNG terminal to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by more than 90%.
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