Environmental Groups Pen Letter Opposing Deepwater Port Fossil Fuel Export Applications
A coalition of environmental and community groups is opposing several proposed deepwater port fossil fuel export facilities throughout the Gulf of Mexico, declaring that the fuel terminals undercut the Biden administration's goals of beating back climate change. In an April…
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5 letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the groups decried the proposals, which would allow for terminals that could accommodate very large crude carriers (VLCC), which would “drive the global export of massive quantities of domestically-extracted crude oil.” Each of the “proposals has the capacity to load and export as much as 2 million barrels” of crude oil per day, the letter said. The more than two dozen signers, including the Sierra Club, Earthjustice and the Center for Biological Diversity, specifically call for the denial of the Sea Port Oil Terminal, Texas GulfLink, Blue Marlin and the Bluewater Texas VLCC crude export projects, along with all other pending deepwater port fossil fuel export licensing applications.