Stand Up for Your Neighborhood! No Hazardous LNG Trucks!

Are you ready for 116 tanker trucks passing your home every day?

Southern Liquefied Natural Gas Company (SLNG), a subsidiary of El Paso Energy, has applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for reactivation of a license to transport liquefied natural gas (LNG) by tank trucks through Savannah from Elba Island.

Southern Liquefied Natural Gas Company is a subsidiary of El Paso Energy

The Chilling Truth

Liquefied natural gas is natural gas frozen to minus 260 degrees F, where it is held until used by the customer. What makes it dangerous is that if it escapes during storage or during transportation and pools, it will warm up, forming a gas cloud that will burn and can explode when confined.

SLNG plans to run up to 58 trucks per day filled with LNG from Elba Island via President Street, the Truman Parkway, DeRenne, I-516 to I-16 and I -95.  Fifty-eight (58) trucks  - more than one tank truck per half hour - loaded with this potentially explosive substance will be passing within a stone’s throw of our homes if the Feds side with SLNG.

Fifty-eight loaded trucks going out and fifty-eight empty trucks coming in. 

That makes 116 tanker truck roundtrips per day on roads that are already crowded. 

The new figures average out to an additional tanker truck similar to this one
on DeRenne less than every 13 minutes, every hour of every day.

A Solution Already Exists

In addition to the FERC's permission to build four truck loading platforms, SLNG must also obtain permission from the City and County to use our roads, the ones that are locally owned.

But no permission is needed to use state and federal roads, including Bay Street – a well-known, established route - as far as we have been able to determine. 
A 2001 memo from the city of Savannah to El Paso Energy stated that no hazardous materials shall be transported on Savannah streets.

What has changed? The people! Join us!

The Fairway Oaks Greenview Association and other concerned environmental groups are opposed to the plans of SLNG.

FERC Public Meeting on Wednesday, September 29, 7PM
Hilton Garden Inn Savannah Midtown, 5711 Abercorn Street
Please come out and show your concern and express your views!

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