Hearing Today on LNG Project

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California regulators today will begin considering a proposal by the world’s largest mining company to moor a liquefied natural gas processing plant off the Southern California coast, setting the stage for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to approve or reject the project, the Sacramento Bee reports.


The three-member State Lands Commission — composed of Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, state Controller John Chung and a representative of the governor — will meet in Oxnard to hear public testimony on BHP Billiton’s application to lease state waters for the floating $800 million terminal.


On Thursday, the California Coastal Commission will meet in Santa Barbara to consider the complex, which would be the length of three football fields and house three 160-foot-high storage tanks.


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