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LNG - A county caught in the crossfire
EDITORS NOTE: Ventura County Star reporters John Krist and Tom Kisken spent four months investigating the fight over liquified natural gas in Ventura County and nationwide.
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Part 1: Search for energy answers
Ventura County residents face a choice between freezing in the dark and
dying in a fireball. Or so you might conclude from the arguments
framing the fight over liquefied natural gas imports into Southern
California. For nearly a year, since Ventura County was swept up by the
nationwide resurgence of interest in LNG, the debate has bounced like a
pinball between scenarios of crisis and catastrophe.
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Part 2: A valley transformed
Linda Baker likes to say that when she settled in this isolated corner
of Wyoming 23 years ago, "it was the least populated valley in the
least populated state in the Lower 48." But Pinedale, the Sublette
County seat, is no longer isolated and no longer as quiet as when Baker
arrived. The town lies on the edge of one of the most productive
natural gas reservoirs in the United States, a vast bubble of fossil
energy trapped beneath the gently rolling hills just outside of
town.
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Part 3: Measuring the dangers
Al De La Cerda sits in an open garage after work, tipping a can of Bud
Light and mulling over nightmares: earthquakes, terrorism and ruptured
pipelines. The natural gas that fuels his anxiety would come ashore
about 2.5 miles from his four-bedroom home at the edge of a strawberry
field. The pipeline would likely follow Hueneme Road, a half-mile from
this South Oxnard neighborhood of working-class homeowners.
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Interactive: Looking at LNG
Part 4: LNG pipes in jobs for some
At the edge of a swamp, life looks different. A pool party means the
back of a pickup lined with plastic and filled with three things:
water, Cajuns in swimsuits and beer. Fishing means huge nets dipping
into the Gulf of Mexico to capture brown shrimp and anything else in
the way: baby sharks, crabs and pogey fish used to make fertilizer and
cosmetics.
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