{"id":672622,"date":"2022-05-26T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grist.org\/?p=571419"},"modified":"2022-05-26T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T10:30:00","slug":"the-war-in-ukraine-may-ramp-up-pollution-in-us-oil-and-gas-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/26\/the-war-in-ukraine-may-ramp-up-pollution-in-us-oil-and-gas-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"The war in Ukraine may ramp up pollution in US oil and gas communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
For the past year, Roishetta Ozane has been trying to stop new liquified natural gas, or LNG, export terminals from being built in southwest Louisiana. \u201cWe are already inundated with LNG and oil and gas,\u201d said the clean energy organizing director with Healthy Gulf<\/a>, who lives in the town of Sulphur. \u201cWe’re surrounded by it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ozane, who lost her home to back-to-back hurricanes in 2020, was already fighting the growing number of terminals, where companies supercool and condense natural gas to load it onto specially-built tanker ships. Now, the ripple effects of Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine\u00a0are making her work even more urgent.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ozane and other climate and environmental justice advocates fear that the industry is using the war to lock in long-term sales contracts and financing for a flood of new export terminals. They say this would do little to alleviate the current energy crisis, but could push climate targets out of reach and threaten nearby communities at every step of the supply chain \u2014 from fracked wells, to pipeline compressor stations, to massive LNG export terminals. While some Americans are hurting due to high gas prices and inflation, frontline communities could end up paying with their health and lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf we bring in all these LNG facilities, they’re not going to start operating for a few years. But then, when they start, we\u2019ll have to deal with them for 30 years,\u201d Ozane said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re fighting this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n