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No LNG exporter is growing faster than Venture Global. Liquified natural gas, or LNG, is one of the oil and gas industry’s most lucrative wins. Over a decade, the United States went from nothing to becoming the world’s largest exporter—and output is expected to nearly double between now and 2029. The growth defied the Biden administration’s goal of reining in climate pollution and has been supercharged by the Trump administration’s pro-fossil-fuel agenda.
In Venture Global’s first year of operation, the company’s Calcasieu Pass terminal, or CP1, which looms over what’s left of Cameron, Louisiana, spewed hundreds of thousands of pounds of methane, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and other hazardous pollutants into the air—registering 139 exceedances of its air permits. And last year, as the company started building CP2 next door, its dredging operation released mud and silt into waterways, killing or damaging millions of oysters, according to fishermen and a lawsuit filed by an oyster farm.
“The sediment is getting inside [the oysters],” said Anthony Theriot, a shrimper and oysterman, pointing out mud stains on the inside of a shell. “Nobody wants to buy this and see that on their plate.”
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