A controversial plan to build a 93-mile natural gas pipeline that will cross Puerto Rico from south to north has energized the Caribbean islands environmental movement – all the way to New York.Officially called by the government Va Verde Green Way, the pipeline has been dubbed Va de la Muerte Death Route by its opponents and prompted protests and petitions to stop it.”Several independent studies have shown that this project will have a negative environmental impact on the islands natural resources like no other project carried out in Puerto Rico in decades,” said Arturo Massol, an activist with Casa Pueblo, a community organization in the mountain town of Adjuntas that is leading the opposition.Massol, a well-known environmentalist on the island, is in New York this week to march in the National Puerto Rican Day Parade Sunday, which this year is dedicated to celebrating the natural beauty of the Caribbean island. And he will give a talk titled “Green or Deadly?” Friday at 6 p.m. at Union Theological Seminary in Harlem.A protest has also been called for tomorrow at noon in front of the New York offices of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at 26 Federal Plaza. The project is awaiting the final go-ahead by the Corps.
via Gasoducto pipeline plan in Puerto Rico draws heated response – New York Daily News.
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Puerto Rico needs natural gas for power generation but not by pipeline. Several years ago, prior to the proposal to build the Ecoelectra LNG import terminal and power pant, I worked on an LNG project proposal for a similar facility near the present plant. At that time we looked at a south to San Juan gas pipeline for the two power plants. It was not seriously concern because of three problems. The first is that the topography and hard rock soils are very difficult as well as environmentally sensitive. Secondly fuel costs savings for the two power plants in San Juan would not be enough to pay for cost of the pipe line. The third reason was that the gas would only go to San Juan and not to the rest of the island. An alternate approach was considered which was to use Ecoelctra facility for LNG imports and barge LNG around the island to supply all of the power plants using the existing barge births near the power plants. This was much better but at that time natural gas was much more expensive and LNG was not available on the US gulf coast. Soon cheap LNG will be available on the gulf coast. This would involve create a significant number of long term jobs and gas to industries. Increased demand could be met easily rather than building another pipeline. Pipelines run by themselves but are not cheap.