Sierra Club challenges LNG export plans

Contentious point: Sierra Club challenges plan to export LNG from Dominion's Cove Point terminal

The Sierra Club is challenging plans to export LNG from Maryland, continuing its fight against the gas industry's push to sell the nation's abundant resources abroad.

The group filed a formal objection with the Energy Department against Dominion's Cove Point export project, arguing that exports of LNG would raise prices for consumers and expand use of "destructive" drilling techniques to extract shale gas, Reuters reported.

"Liquefied natural gas is not only the dirtiest and most polluting form of gas, but it also requires an increase in fracking; a process we know to be unsafe and dangerous," Deb Nardone, director of the group's natural gas reform campaign, said in a statement on Tuesday.

The group called on the government to…

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