Public comments on a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas terminal off the New Jersey and New York coasts are running 1,000-to-1 against the plan.
Environmental groups are calling on a liquified natural gas company to come clean about its intentions to not only import LNG into the tri-state area, but to export it overseas as well.
Liberty Natural Gas (LNG) wants to build a port in the Atlantic Ocean just 24 miles off Long Branch and just 17 miles off Jones Beach on Long Island. LNG has applied for permission and is waiting for the decision to come from the U.S. Maritime Administration and the Coast Guard as well as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. A New Jersey lawmaker wants the answer to be “n