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Imagine that your area's gas utility announces that your neighborhood has been chosen as the site of a huge facility to process and store liquefied natural gas (LNG).
This is exactly what happened to Imani Kazana and her neighbors in Hyattsville, Maryland communities about five years ago. The company, Washington Gas Company (WGC), has proposed the facility to convert pipe-delivered methane into LNG. The proposed storage plant would hold one billion cubic feet of LNG. More than 3,000 people live within 2,000 feet of the site – located two blocks from a nursing home, and a few miles from the University of Maryland's main campus at College Park with 37,000 students. But it's also happening to many other communities across the country.
The choice facing the Public Service Commission is shown below: a residential neighborhood intact or a risky LNG facility with many adverse consequences for the Chillum communities future.
