Despite the protests of local environmentalists who claimed the action conflicts with the Biden administration’s professed climate aims, federal authorities this week allowed the construction of a new oil terminal in the Gulf of Mexico off Texas.
The license was officially given on November 21 by the Maritime Administration of the Transportation Department, bringing to a close a three-year process that started under the Trump administration.
The Sea Port Oil Terminal, which would have a 2 million barrel per day capacity, would be situated offshore of Freeport, Texas. Two pipes would be built as part of the project, which would pass through Surfside Beach, where the City Council decisively rejected it in March 2020.
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Greenpeace criticized the Biden administration’s approval of the terminal, citing an environmental impact statement that predicted the terminal would produce 83,000 tonnes of carbon emissions annually just from construction, in addition to an estimated 219 million tonnes of emissions annually from downstream refining and combustion.
The environmentalist organization also cited President Biden’s recent participation in the COP27 United Nations climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, and the Biden administration’s stated commitment to reducing carbon emissions by 50% by 2030.
This is precisely what we mean when we say that oil and gas firms sacrifice communities in order to earn a profit. To cut emissions in half, we have fewer than ten years left. New oil and gas project approval is an “on-ramp to planetary collapse,” according to Destiny Watford, a climate campaigner for Greenpeace US.
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The approval of additional oil export facilities just after President Biden lectured the world about raising climate objectives at COP27 is the height of hypocrisy, according to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
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