G. Tracy Mehan III, a frequent contributor (primarily his excellent book reviews) to WaterWired, is executive director for government affairs at the American Water Works Association and adjunct professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.
Today, Tracy tackles Meghan L. O’Sullivan's, Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power. The review will be published in the September/October 2018 issue of the The Environmental Forum.
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Here are the first few paragraphs of his review, titled Mixing Energy, Economics and Geopolitics:
Meghan L. O’Sullivan tells the story of how, on one hazy Sunday in late February 2016, the 935-foot, 100,000-ton Asia Vision was maneuvered into position by four red, white and green tugboats so as to perfectly align this behemoth with the four loading arms of the jetty at Sabine Pass terminal, “part of a one-thousand-acre facility straddling the Texas-Louisiana border.
“With a wrench the size of a human arm, workers secured the ship to the jetty,” writes O’Sullivan. “Natural gas, which had been cooled to –260 degrees Fahrenheit and liquefied over the course of traveling through more than a mile of steel pipe and refrigerating systems, flowed into the tanker.” A few days later, the ship sailed on to Brazil with its three billion cubic feet of gas.
This historic event was the culmination of more than a decade of work by an American company, Cheniere Energy, at a cost of $20 billion, to develop this extensive LNG operation — without ever turning a profit. Indeed, “the Asia Vision was the first vessel carrying LNG that shipped from the lower forty-eight states since the 1960s. After decades of fretting about its burgeoning dependency on imported energy, the United States had become an exporter of natural gas,” observes O’Sullivan in her new Simon & Schuster book Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power.
Read on! I intend to.
Enjoy!
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