Louisiana Already Has 4 LNG Terminals. It Just Added Another.
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The Trump administration fast-tracked the project approval, reversing a Biden directive.
On many nights, John Allaire can turn off the lights in his house and keep reading a book by the glow of 80-foot-high flares blasting from a gas export terminal a mile away.
The prospect of a second liquefied natural gas, or LNG, terminal in his once-peaceful corner of southwest Louisiana is unsettling for Allaire, a retired oil and gas engineer whose house sits near Calcasieu Pass.
“There’s the ongoing noise pollution, ongoing flaring,” he said. “And the light pollution is unbelievable.”
Venture Global, the U.S.’s second-largest LNG producer, plans to build a second terminal alongside its Calcasieu Pass facility in sparsely populated Cameron Parish. Venture also owns the newly built Plaquemines LNG terminal, about 20 miles south of New Orleans.
The proposed second Venture terminal in Cameron, dubbed CP2, was recently granted an export permit by the Department of Energy. The permit was the fifth LNG-related approval from the department since President Donald Trump took office and lifted former President Joe Biden’s pause on new LNG permits.
The Trump administration aims to cut “red tape around projects like CP2” and boost the availability of “affordable, reliable, secure American energy,” said Energy Secretary Chris Wright in a statement.
Louisiana has four LNG terminals and two more are under construction. Many more are welcome, said Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry. 05-07-25
