Recently a Liquid Natural Gas producer suggested they should be allowed to deliver LNG from Savannah, GA throughout the south, to include Atlanta. The full story written by Mary Landers can be seen here.
http://savannahnow.com/news/2010-08-24/plan-lng-tankers-derenne-worries-...
What is the danger? Outside of normal wrecks, tankers are prone to rollovers.
LNG tankers make perfect terrorist bombs. In Savannah these trucks will pass right by Hunter Army Airfield.
In 1944 a LNG explosion leveled one square mile of Cleveland. The Cleveland Disaster. The very first commercial LNG facility built in the United States in 1941, caused a major industrial accident known as the "The Cleveland Disaster." According to the U.S. Bureau of Mines report, LNG holding tanks failed and released their contents into the streets and sewers and their vaporous cloud ignited and fire engulfed the nearby residents and commercial establishments.
The Fiery Inferno Devastated One Square Mile Of Cleveland, Ohio. Liquefied Natural Gas Destroyed
79 Homes, 2 Factories, 217 Cars,7 Trailers, Left 680 Homeless,Injured 225 and Killed 131.
In 2004, a blast at Algerian liquefied natural gas plant killed 27 people.
In Savannah 58 trucks a day passing our retail stores and jobs and homes and families driving down the street...
Each truck tanker will have 13,000 gallons of Liquid Natural Gas which in a wreck, if released, will convert from liquid to vapor and expand to 600 times to about 8 million gallons of gas....
This would will produce about a 5,000 degree fire.
This is so dangerous I can not believe it is even being considered.
