US Representatives in push for LNG approvals

By Luke Johnson Houston

 09 August 2012 22:59 GMT

A group of US lawmakers are urging President Barack Obama’s administration to speed up the approval process for liquefied natural gas export facilities, writes Luke Johnson.

The 34 Republicans and 10 Democrats from the House of Representatives said in a letter to US Energy Secretary Steven Chu that delays are stifling domestic production of natural gas.

They called for “a renewed sense of urgency to the approval process” and cited a lack of options for newly producing states to market their gas as a major impediment to further production.

“The federal permitting process currently stands in the way of energy companies distributing their products in a timely manner,” Oklahoma Republican James Lankford and Texas Democrat Gene Green said in…

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