Natural Gas Plan Has Neighbors Nervous!

A well balanced article in Clark County's "The Columbian" by Katie Durbin.

Natural gas plan has neighbors nervous

Friday, August 10, 2007
BY KATHIE DURBIN, Columbian staff writer

CATHLAMET - Franz and Mieke Eykel are expecting a lot of guests Monday at their house on the west side of Puget Island.

The Eykels live a half-mile from the site of a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal directly across the Columbia River. If the $600 million terminal is built, they will have a close-up view from their backyard beach of 900-foot-long tanker ships 15 stories high unloading their cargo of super-cooled natural gas.

The Eykels are not happy about that, and neither are their neighbors, as evidenced by the "No LNG" signs planted along the beach and in the nearby town of Cathlamet.

Opponents of the LNG facility are getting some help making their case from participants in a weeklong Convergence for Climate Action, a combination camp-out, seminar and celebration of alternative energy that began Wednesday at the Wahkiakum County Fairgrounds in Skamokawa, a few miles downstream.

More;

http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/08102007news181224.cfm