CALYPSO LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS DEEPWATER PORT  

·        Can Not Guarantee security to our coastal communities

·        Can Not Protect against terrorist attacks

·        Will leave our beaches, environment, and tourism at risk

·        Will continue our dependence on foreign energy sources

Suez Energy North America, under its subsidiary CALYPSO, wants to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) deepwater

ports off Fort Lauderdale beaches.  Suez proposes to build two floating ports in the ocean and a pipeline into

Port Everglades, with the objective of getting additional natural gas from foreign energy sources.  The final step

before construction can begin is approval by Florida’s Governor Crist.  Governor Patterson (NY) recently rejected

a similar project on Long Island sound. 

WHY CITIZENS SHOULD OPPOSE CALYPSO

The CALYPSO project would be the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) deepwater port of its kind off the shore

of the United States. The dangers include flammable liquefied natural gas being transported by ship, heated

from 260 degrees below zero using ocean water to a gas vapor, and then transported by pipeline at extremely

high pressure to Port Everglades, a distance of more than ten miles. The first LNG onshore facility leveled one

square mile of Cleveland Ohio in 1944, killing 181 people, and leaving 680 homeless. A similar explosion

occurred in 2004 in Algeria. There are no LNG deepwater ports so close to the US coastline -so what could

happen is unknown. 

CALYPSO is bad for our community and our country.  The concerns are many:

 ·         One ignited vapor cloud explosion is capable of traveling up to 30 miles inland from

       the ocean docking port – endangering Fort Lauderdale and all of Broward County

·         Wind speeds of 4.5 mph would result in a flammable vapor cloud extending 7.3 miles

      downwind from the LNG port

·         Once the gas dispersion level is exposed to oxygen, it will ignite from a simple spark –

      thus creating a fireball

·         Fire departments have no way to extinguish or control such a cloud – it has to burn itself out.

·         A 2007 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report confirms that LNG tankers

      face “suicide attacks from explosive-laden boats, standoff attacks with weapons

      launched from a distance and armed assaults resulting in a “severe threat to public safety,

      environmental consequences, and disruption of the energy supply chain.”

·         The GAO Report to Congress exhorts, “the Coast Guard – the lead federal agency for

      Maritime Security – has insufficient resources to meet it own self-imposed security standards.”

·         Tankers on the ocean’s horizon would be 3 football fields long and 17 stories high –

      increasing the risk of offshore spills, contributing to global climate disruption, and being

      targets for terrorist suicide attacks

·    One tanker holds 33 million gallons of LNG – which equals 20 billion gallons of natural gas –

      an explosion that would have the power of 55 atomic bombs!

BACKGROUND

The original plan of the Suez Company was to unload its ships containing LNG in the Bahamas so it could

flow through a pipeline to Florida.  Suez failed to get approval from the government of the Bahamas for this plan.

LNG is natural gas in a liquid form kept at extremely cold temperatures. In liquid state, the gas is not flammable.

It is heated on the vessel at the time of discharge into a pipeline, at which time its fumes are highly flammable. 

If the substance vaporizes too quickly, such as caused by an accident or terrorist attack, a violent and devastating

explosion can occur.

DESCRIPTION OF THE SYSTEM

The deepwater ports will consist of two docking ports, one located 8 miles off Fort Lauderdale’s beach and the

other 10 miles.   Vessels with LNG will anchor there and discharge gas into the connecting pipeline. This vessel

will be visible near the horizon. A second port will house a permanent ship, providing additional capacity for ships

to discharge gas. It will house five gas storage tanks. The pipeline, which will carry gas from the two ports, will rest

on the ocean floor until it reaches the coral reef, where it will run several hundred feet below the coral reef in a

tunnel.  It will surface in Port Everglades, and connect into a Florida gas pipeline.

Governor Crist has the power to stop this! 

Please either write the Governor or email him at  

Charlie.Crist@myFlorida.com

You can also click on Email Gov. and your email will be forwarded to the Governor Crist.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:              

www.galtmile.com

www.lngdanger.com

www.timriley.com