据OGJ3月18日休斯顿报道，美国联邦能源监管委员会(FERC)在3月15日发布的最终环境影响声明（EIS）中表示，得克萨斯州布朗斯维尔LNG有限责任公司拟议中的LNG项目的建设可能会导致不利的环境后果。报告补充说，如果项目发起人提出的避免、减少和缓解影响的措施和FERC工作人员的额外建议得到实施，那么影响将不会那么显著。
但是，EIS警告说，除了该地区提出的另外两个项目外，该项目的建设将导致船只运输期间布朗斯维尔航道内沉积物、浑浊度和海岸线侵蚀的大量累积影响。联邦政府列出的猎鹰、虎猫和美洲虎的栖息地也可能消失，船只可能会伤害这些动物。
FERC的最终EIS称，该项目通常被称为德克萨斯LNG项目，该设施的终端将建在一个现有的人造船舶航道沿线，该航道目前被划为商业和工业用地。报告指出，该项目的发起者提交了计划，概述了防泄漏控制、雨水污染预防、有害杂草和入侵植物控制、设施照明、候鸟保护、陆生爬行动物和两栖动物保护、意外文化资源发现和扬尘控制。
该项目的发起人另外指出，FERC的最终EIS是环境审查过程中的最后一步，最终的EIS将于6月13日截止日期前提交联邦授权决定，并有望获得FERC的最终批准。
孔丽炜 摘译自OGJ
原文如下：
FERC issues final EIS for proposed Brownsville Channel LNG project
Construction of Texas Brownsville LNG LLC’s proposed LNG project could result in adverse environmental consequences, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said in a Mar. 15 final environmental impact statement. Impacts would be less than significant if the project sponsor’s proposed impact avoidance, minimization, and mitigation measures and the FERC staff’s additional recommendations are implemented, it added.
But the project’s construction, in addition to two others proposed in the area, would result in substantial cumulative impacts from sediment and turbidity and shoreline erosions within the Brownsville Ship Channel during operations from vessel transits, the final EIS warned. Habitat for the federally listed aplomado falcon, ocelot, and jaguarundi also could be lost, and vessels could strike the animals, it said.
Commonly called the Texas LNG Project, the facility’s terminal would be built in an area currently zoned for commercial and industrial use, along an existing, manmade ship channel, FERC’s final EIS said. It indicated that the project’s sponsor filed plans outlining spill-prevention controls, stormwater-pollution prevention, noxious weed and invasive plant controls, facility lighting, migratory bird protection, terrestrial reptile and amphibian conservation, the discovery of unanticipated cultural resources, and fugitive dust controls.
FERC’s final EIS is the last step in the environmental review process leading toward the June 13 federal authorization decision deadline and anticipated issuance of final FERC approval, the project’s sponsor noted separately.