Gibbstown LNG Deal Shows More New Jersey Duplicity Than DRBC

Garland Thompson explains what really happened with the Gibbstown LNG deal. It reveals New Jersey duplicity more so than it does DRBC double-dealing.

Let’s think again about that DRBC unanimous vote supporting New Fortress Energy’s shipping pier for its truck-mounted LNG export plan.

From this vantage, it’s more of what New Jersey wants, rather than a “Philly area” push, with state Senator Sweeney behind it as a simple “economic development” effort that benefits people in his state. Gov. Murphy isn’t going to fight local political power-player Sweeney on this, even though he pushed Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf to support a ban on drilling in the Upper Basin.

The reason I say this is that the Delaware Riverkeeper and her Clean Air Council and Sierra Club cohorts already are fighting to block exports, with the Pennsylvania DEP listening closely to every loud complaint of a rules transgression or danger claim raised in opposition attacks on pipeline transmission projects such as Atlantic Sunrise and Mariner East.

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