That's a big ship!

Some people have asked about the size of an LNG tanker. Here's an approximation of what a ship might look like next to the LNG tank farm that Northern Star wants to build. You can only see the bow of the tanker, but it does give you an idea of the overall size of the thing.

They are somewhere around 1000 feet long (that's just over 3 football fields) and about 15 stories tall. Just in case you're having a hard time imagining 1000 feet, here's an example. Remember the Kingdome? It was 700 feet from one edge to the other, so one way to think of an LNG ship is that's it's like 1 1/4 Kingdomes cruising down the river. Except the Kingdome couldn't cause a mile-wide fire.