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Wed., January 9, 2013 4:56pm
The Obama administration is expected to approve liquefied natural gas exports early this year. A facility on the Georgia coast is looking for approval. Southern LNG wants to refit its terminal near Savannah for exports to send natural gas overseas.
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Mon., September 10, 2012 4:02pm
The owners of a liquified natural gas import facility on Elba Island near Savannah are seeking permission to export LNG. Southern LNG is asking the US Energy Department to approve a request to ship up to $4 million a year out of the country through Georgia.
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Fri., March 30, 2012 5:39pm
A liquified natural gas importer announced today, it's withdrawing an application to restart trucking operations on Georgia's Elba Island. The decision by El Paso Corporation ends a two-year effort to move the hazardous fuel through the streets of Savannah, near schools, homes and hospitals.
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Fri., December 23, 2011 6:45pm
Activists seeking to stop trucks filled with liquefied natural gas from rumbling down Savannah streets are making a new argument to federal regulators. The claim is in response to El Paso Corporation's request to truck LNG through Savannah to serve domestic markets. Activists say, they have uncovered evidence that suggest the company actually wants to export LNG overseas.
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Tue., March 8, 2011 12:44am
Savannah city officials didn't get the answers they wanted at a public hearing on a proposal to truck liquified natural gas through the city. It was the second meeting in three months on a plan that could send up to 58 trucks a day loaded with hazardous LNG through city neighborhoods.
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Thu., September 30, 2010 3:28pm
Savannah city officials say, they're very upset with a proposal to truck liquified natural gas through the city. The El Paso company wants to put trucks filled with LNG on city streets to get the hazardous material from its ocean terminal on the Savannah River. Right now, it's only piped.
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Thu., August 26, 2010 3:56pm
Residents of some Savannah neighborhoods are upset over a plan to put liquefied natural gas tankers on area roadways. Houston-based El Paso Corporation has asked federal energy regulators for permission to load L-N-G at its Savannah-area ocean terminal and transport the material on roads to customers throughout the Southeast. The route would take the material near schools, homes and hospitals.
