LNG plant business plan on building their plants along the Brownsville Ship …show more content…
These actions that the LNG companies take are damaging the ecosystem. There has been speculation of an LNG plant to be built nearby the Boca Chica beach. Brownsville and the nearby towns are known for their beaches and tourism that come along with the beaches. The LNG plants are known to be a renovating energy source that will possibly be a cleaner energy source than burning fossil fuels. Yeah that’s cool and everything but LNG plants are potentially explosive if there is a chance that there is a leak. LNG plant explosions are known to cause mass disastrous. LNG plants emit “3000 times more nitrogen oxide than power plants” (Robledo) in the Brownsville area. These effects can have a hazardous outcome to the surrounding townspeople. Some of the effects that the pollution will have are that it can damage the people’s respiratory system, potentially causing frequent coughing and rashes or bleeding in the throat. If you would rather have a future with opaque skies, higher money flow, and destroyed ecosystems, then be for LNG plants. For the long term a cleaner environment benefits more for the future generations to come.
In resolution, investing billions of dollars into an industry so it can lure away tourist, cause health diseases, and destroy the few natural environments that we have in Brownsville would not be such a benevolent idea to generate an improved economy for Brownsville. The scheme of construction a LNG plant in Brownsville has raised many of the citizen’s eyebrows in bewilderment. The negatives to building an LNG plant outnumber the positives for