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...tall hurdles. The U.S. has just five LNG receiving terminals, and while regulators in the U.S., Canada and Mexico have approved 15 more, the projects are hardly assured. Australian firm BHP Billiton, for one, wants to construct an offshore regasification plant the size of three football fields off the coast of Oxnard, Calif., but opposition is mounting. Activists raise concerns about pollution and potential harm to wildlife from such a large industrial operation. A spokeswoman for BHP says the LNG industry has never had a major spill (although an explosion occurred at an LNG production plant in Algeria...
...thousands of households every day to find people who have been displaced by the hurricane.Kessler said that he expected to find differences between the results from the New Orleans survivors—who mostly faced damage because of levee damage—and those from elsewhere in the Gulf Coast. “People in Mississippi and Alabama had an act of nature occur to them, whereas in New Orleans, a lot of people think it’s not an act of nature, it’s an act of bureaucratic inefficiency,” he said...
When the raging flood-waters of Hurricane Katrina swept away the campuses, and plans, of Gulf Coast college students, they could have spent their semesters waiting and wallowing. But, for the 25 Tulane students who took refuge at Harvard this semester, the setback became an opportunity for an unusual adventure.From the House system and nightlife to advising and academic competition, Harvard was, for these students, a far cry from their school in the Big Easy. Almost all 25 students are set to return to Tulane this week, taking with them mixed impressions of their semesters in Cambridge.Of the 10 Tulane...
...disaster is that locals go to the states, states go to the Federal government, and they bring resources in. When we hit that tipping point and the city flooded, it was not within FEMA's mission, capabilities or competency to go out and direct actual rescue operations. The Coast Guard came in and did it because we're trained to do that. And whatever issues there are with FEMA as an organization, I hope the public does not generalize to a larger responsibility for FEMA. No matter what anybody's issue is, there's a tendency to say the problem...
...chief of staff of the Coast Guard, and they'd like to have me back. This has probably been the longest absence of a standing chief of staff in the organization's history. And they've done well without me, but you like to know that you're needed...