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A Fact Sheet from Calvert Citizens for a Healthy Community 2014 The TRUTH About Dominion Cove Point Who Is Misleading Whom? 1 Dominion Cove Point High School* Elemmentary Schools* Senior Living Facility* Playgrounds Vulnerau ble FFamilyamilyilyy,, Child, and Community FFacaacilities Near Cove Point LNG Plant, Lusbyy,, MDD 2 Offshore Ship Platform Middle Schools* CHHESPEESPAX Program Ball Fields/Family Rec. Calvert Clifffss State Park Blue Area: 2-Mile Radius from Dominion Cove Point Facility Pro ed New L Facil ties Foo prin pos NG i , t t Chilld Care//PPre-School* Communiunity Beaches Places of Worship* Includes ~2,365 Residential Homes * Noise Sensitive Areas (NSAs) 2 1 The blue encircled area is the 2 mile radius surrounding Dominion. Why should you care? Southern Maryland residents will be forced to accept serious risks to their health, safety, property and environment. OMINION RESOURCES has proposed a $3.8 bil - and Japan 1 (not Europe or Ukraine). If built, the D lion transformation of the Cove Point Liquid facility would be the first in the world to be sited in Natural Gas (LNG) import facility in Lusby, MD a densely populated community. Southern Mary - into a heavy-industrial LNG liquefaction/export land residents will be forced to accept serious risks complex. Through a web of pipelines, processing to their health, safety, property, and environment. sites, and tankers, Dominion Cove Point (DCP) There are multiple reasons these facilities are lo - would send gas from the Marcellus shale in Ap - cated in remote or heavy-industrialized areas. palachia to customers already on contract in India Let’s cut to the chase. TOP 10 REASONS TO READ THE FACTS Dominion CP ‘forgets’ to include 39,732 people in it’s expansion application to the FERC —Solomons and Prince Frederick were described as the closest towns. THE RESIDENTS OF SOUTHERN lation 2,368); the County seat at Prince Solomons and Prince Frederick. CALVERT COUNTY Frederick, 16 miles north of Cove Point Correct population data (2010 Census), In their application to the Federal En - (population 2,538); Huntingtown, 21 Solomons to Prince Frederick: Lusby ergy Regulatory Commission (FERC), miles north of Cove Point (population 20,483. Solomons 1,828. Dowell 535. Dominion grossly misrepresented the 3,311); and Dunkirk, 30 miles north of Broome’s Island 405. St. Leonard number of people who live in Lusby. Cove Point (population 2,520).” 2 Their 6,471. Port Republic 3,871. Prince They stated: “The Cove Point Liquefac - total for the population, Solomons to Frederick 11,045. Total: 44,638. 3 tion Facility will be constructed in Prince Frederick: 4,906 Grand total of people living in the area southern Calvert County . Major There is NO MENTION of the vast major - surrounding DCP but NOT reported to population and commercial centers in ity of the population in the actual vicin - FERC: 39,732. the County include Solomons, eight ity of the proposed facility (Lusby) or Dominion “missed” almost 90 percent of miles to the south of Cove Point (popu - between the nearest stated centers of the population surrounding the site. The proposed facility’s proximity to a dense population (39,732) is unprecedented GLOBALLY. Never been done. Anywhere . CP NOT COMPLIANT WITH INDUSTRY LNG ports must be located where Human error potential always exists, so it STANDARDS LNG vapors from a spill or release can - must be taken into consideration when Dominion Cove Point LNG is a member not affect civilians; selecting/designing an LNG port. 5 of SIGTTO (Society of International LNG ship berths must be far from the Hazard Zones (also called Zones of Gas Tanker and Terminal Operators). 4 ship transit fairway: Concern) surrounding LNG carriers However, Dominion’s proposed ex - . to prevent collision or allision from other have been defined for the U.S. Depart - port facility is not consistent with SIGT - vessels; ment of Energy (Sandia National Lab - TO’s LNG standards, which state: . to prevent surging and ranging along the oratories). The largest Zone is 2.2 There is no acceptable probability for LNG pier and jetty that may cause the berthed ship to miles/3,500 meters around the vessel, a catastrophic LNG release. While risk break its moorings and/or LNG connection; indicating that LNG ports must be lo - of small LNG spills is acceptable, any . since all other vessels must be considered cated at least that distance from civil - risk of catastrophic LNG release is un - an ignition source (conflicting waterway uses in - ians. experts call for a Hazard Zone dis - acceptable. clude fishing and recreational boating). tance of three miles or more. Dominion’s industrial plant will be consuming industrial-sized quantities of our collective well water. Every day and every night. IMPACTS ON LOCAL FRESH WATER from the Lower Patapsco aquifer; 7 155 Aquia water for testing, water and sew - AND AQUIFERS million gal/yr from already stressed lo - erage for 2,000 workers 24x7 is un - Current DCP max water usage is 18.25 cal water supplies. known and will be greater than previ - million gal/yr from the Aquia aquifer; Dominion’s Offsite Area A for laydown ously estimated, further stressing the proposed water usage will increase by is now an “Instant City of 2,000 work - Aquia Aquifer and the already tenuous more than 850%. The proposed facility ers 24x7” and is deemed a safety and condition of the Solomons Waste Water and new processes will require 375,000 health concern according to the Calvert Treatment Plant. gallons of fresh water every day, drawn County Health Department. Volume of Equipment and storage tanks used in the export process will generate 20.4 tons of air pollutants each year. What you don’t see is what you get. AIR POLLUTION AND TOXIC CHEMICALS and accelerate negative effects on the respirable PM1, toluene, zinc, xylenes. Equipment and storage tanks used in Bay, farmlands, and residences. Chemi - Hazardous Air Pollutants will be emit - the export process will generate 20.4 cals emitted have the potential to dete - ted: formaldehyde, hexane, toluene, tons of air pollutants each year. 8 riorate roofs and siding of homes. xylenes, acetaldehyde, ethylbenzene, Emitted carcinogens are linked to in - The 130 Mega Watt power plant at the benzene, propylene oxide, acrolein, flu - creased respiratory and cardiovascular Cove Point site will use natural gas for a oranthene. diseases, especially in children, the significant portion of its fuel. The sys - DCP has “purchased” 625 tons of Ni - elderly, and other vulnerable popula - tems will consume 67,941 pounds of trogen Oxides (NOx) and 166 tons of tions. 9 fuel per hour (almost 34 tons of fuel per Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) Calvert County currently has the worst hour). The plant will run 24/7x365 emission reduction credits (ERCs) in ac - American Lung Association air rating days a year; the total fuel consumption cordance with federal regulations. This of “F.” will be in excess of 297,581 tons of fuel means they are paying to pollute more Maryland already boasts the highest rate per year. 11 at Cove Point than is otherwise allowed of premature deaths due to air pollu - Toxic Air Pollutants will be emitted: am - by law. NOx and VOCs are major con - tion, more than any other state 10 monia, butane, sulfuric acid mist, ben - tributors to ozone. DCP emissions will degrade air quality zene, nitrous oxide, hydrogen sulfide, Ballast water drawn from India and Japan has toxigenic strains of cholera and other diseases, toxic algae, and radioactivity from the meltdown of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. IMPACTS ON THE CHESAPEAKE BAY Ballast water drawn from India and to a loss of 1,016 feet of streams/wet - AND WETLANDS Japan has toxigenic strains of cholera lands. 17 Cove Point would trigger the need for and other diseases, toxic algae, and ra - 96.9 acres of forest will be cleared near 85 additional 1,000-foot-long tankers dioactivity since the meltdown of Appeal Landfill (Area A) to support in the Chesapeake Bay each year, car - Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. 16 construction providing staging, tempo - rying volatile, potentially explosive liq - Increased water pollutants will nega - rary offices, and 1,700 parking spaces. 14 uid fuel, will worsen local air quality tively affect marine life, significantly im - Clearing of forests threatens the net - and dump billions of gallons of ballast pacting the livelihood of local water - work of rivers and wetlands that attract wastewater into the nearby Atlantic men. tourists; and constant industrial noise waters and Bay. 15 Construction at the Terminal will mean disrupts animals and migratory birds. DCP will cram equipment and storage tanks into an unusually tight space, increasing the risk for catastrophic accidents. HUMAN SAFETY HAZARDS within two miles of approximately 2,365 30,000 people within 5 miles of DCP and Stockpiles of toxic, potentially explosive homes, 2 schools, 19 daycare centers, 3 the potential increases. chemicals including propane, ethane, churches, 2 shopping centers, and adjoin - Recent explosions at other LNG facilities acid-gases, and cancer-causing benzene ing Calvert Cliffs State Park and Cove caused a 2-mile radius evacuation of could trigger a “fireball” in the commu - Point Park with 7 multi-purpose sports 1000 residents and workers in Plymouth, nity and within 3 miles of Calvert Cliffs fields, swimming pool, tennis/basketball WA (3/31/14); 95 residents of Opal, WY Nuclear Power Plant. courts, picnicing, and playgrounds. were evacuated 5 miles away from a LNG DCP is adjacent to a public park and Due to the volatility, LNG liquefaction fa - explosion (4/23/14). within 4,500 feet of approximately 360 cilities are potential targets for terrorists; DCP will cram equipment and storage homes (who are at risk of flash fire).