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The report is likely to spur a competitive lobbying campaign for regulatory approval of export terminals.
In the longer term, liquefaction plants which use electric motors rather than huge turbines look set to reduce the size and capital costs of export terminals.
Although it is the largest producer of natural gas, the US does not currently export its supplies, and the construction of a handful of export terminals will not be completed until at least 2015.
Many environmental groups and green-minded politicians in the Pacific Northwest are already on record as opposing a wave of export terminals proposed from here to the south-central coast of Oregon, aiming to ship coal to Asia.
Left-leaning American politicians at the local, state, and federal level have blocked the construction of export terminals that would allow American energy producers to ship natural gas overseas.
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The state of Washington, similarly, rejected a water permit for export terminals for coal bound for use outside the state.
--U.S. approval of a number of proposed export terminals for liquefied natural gas would signal to Europe and the rest of the world that the days of Russia's gas-export leverage were numbered.
The immediate impetus for the moves in recent days has been a string of interruptions in pipeline operations in the Midwest and in Nigeria, as well as a shutdown of Mexican export terminals in the Gulf of Mexico because of bad weather.
With U.S. gas production continuing to increase to all-time records, and a tripling of our export terminals to six by the end of next year, the International Energy Agency reports that we have the potential to pass Qatar and Australia to become the world's largest exporter of LNG within five to seven years.
With Australia and Indonesia straining to produce for China, South Korea and Japan increasingly looked to the United States for future supplies, stimulating interest in the building of several export terminals in Oregon and Washington State and on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
That is important, especially given that Powder River Basin coal producers, which are among the potential losers of the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, are using the Duke study to argue in favor of Northwest export terminals to access global markets.
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