Saltwater fishermen beware!  Shell Oil company is threatening Gulf fishing by developing an offshore facility in the Gulf of Mexico for importing natural gas.

Known as a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, Shell's Gulf Landing facility will be located off Louisiana’s western coast, close to Texas waters. One of dozens of proposed LNG terminals in the next big wave of Gulf energy projects, the terminals are designed to import the super-chilled, liquid form of natural gas. The terminals dock massive ships from places like Qatar and Nigeria, pump the LNG out of the tankers, return it to a gas form, and put the gas into our pipelines.

 The Shell terminal's current design will needlessly kill billions of fish eggs, larvae, and zooplankton, jeopardizing important fisheries and the economies that rely on them. While it’s illegal to even posses a redfish in federal waters, much less catch one, Shell could be destroying the equivalent of 5% of Louisiana’s annual redfish catch! Fortunately, there are fish-friendly, cost-effective alternatives that exist. Oil companies are using these alternatives elsewhere, but Shell has refused.

Given the beating the Gulf has taken during last year’s overactive hurricane season, the last thing the fishing community needs is the further degradation of our natural resources!

To learn more about this issue, and send a message to Shell, demanding the corporation abandon its flawed proposal, use this link: Tell Shell: Stop the fish-killing machines!
 

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Fishing for the future,

Capt. Scott McCune

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