Clean Environment

Natural gas is the cleanest major-source of energy used in the United States today and 1.5 million homes and businesses in Oregon and Washington rely on it daily to provide everything from heat and cooling to cooking and hot water

• More Natural Gas, More Clean Air
  Natural gas is a clean, safe and reliable source of energy to meet the Northwest’s and America’s growing demand for energy for heating, cooling, cooking, hot water, electricity generation and, increasingly, transportation fuel. Using more natural gas to replace dirtier and less environmentally acceptable fuels will help address simultaneously a number of environmental concerns such as smog, acid rain and greenhouse gas emissions, as shown in the graph (below). Natural gas is cleaner burning than other fossil fuels because it contains more hydrogen (which results in harmless water as the combustion product) and less carbon, which produces the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2).
  
  
• Efficiency Reduces Global Warming
  Natural gas is a highly efficient source of energy. About 90% of the natural gas produced is delivered to customers as useful energy. Modern power stations can convert natural gas into electricity with efficiencies greater than 50% versus 35% for coal and heavy oil. When natural gas is used for home heating, close to 80% of its heat content is effectively used. In contrast, less than 28% of the energy converted to electricity reaches consumers, which is why natural gas is a better solution for homes and businesses than electrical heating power when its comes to heating, cooking or hot water. When using natural gas to generate heat or electrical power the combination of a cleaner burning fuel and the need to use less of it results in considerably less air pollution , and leads to less global warming than the use of other fuel sources.
• A Cleaner Process
  Liquefied natural gas processing makes natural gas even cleaner. Because the liquefaction process requires many of the impurities in natural gas to be removed, liquefied natural gas that is re-gasified produces a cleaner-burning gas which is better for the environment than unprocessed gas that is simply taken from the ground.
• Clean Air
  Bradwood Landing will meet or exceed Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) air standards.
• A Tank Within a Tank
  Bradwood Landing’s storage tanks will be “Full Containment”, meaning doubled-walled – a tank within a tank – with an inner nickel-steel tank surrounded by a reinforced concrete secondary tank with walls up to 2 feet thick and a domed concrete roof. Full Containment tanks exceed the federal government’s required standards for liquefied natural gas storage, further reflecting Bradwood Landing’s commitment to safety and the environment. (see image below)
  
  

• Hunt Creek Restoration
  Bradwood Landing will occupy just 55 acres of a 420 acre site on land already zoned for marine industrial use and is a State of Oregon approved port site. For many years the site of a sawmill and small town, Bradwood Landing will work to protect and enhance the local environment, including estuary and forest habitat restoration at Hunt Creek.
• Reducing Visual Impacts
  Bradwood Landing will eliminate or reduce the visual impacts through use of sand-berms around the facility, natural color paints, down-lighting directed away from the river toward our site and the planting of large trees and natural vegetation to screen the facility from the river vantage point.
• Limited Dredging
  Dredging at Bradwood Landing will be limited to accommodate carrier docking. Our site has been approved for dredge disposal deposition and as a port location by the State of Oregon. Dredge material will be carefully tested, monitored and disposed of, primarily on-site, under plans approved by state and federal authorities.
• High-efficiency, Low-emission
  The Bradwood Landing cogeneration power plant will be constructed using state-of-the-art high-efficiency, low-emission gas turbines. The turbines will be fueled with natural gas supplied by the LNG terminal.
• Integration for Efficiency
  By integrating the cooling sources of the LNG terminal with the heat sources of the power plant, the power plant will achieve a generation efficiency (fuel chargeable to power) in excess of 65%.