The Financial Times reported today that Germany has completed the construction of an LNG import terminal in Wilhelmshaven (on the North Sea in northwest Germany) in 200 days.1 The terminal, along with another in Brunsbüttel, which is to be completed by the end of the year, will facilitate the importation of LNG this winter to replace Russian gas.
Getting this done is little month than six months is amazing. One wonders how long it would take in the United States. Probably years, if it could be done at all. In the United States, 200 days would probably wouldn’t get you through the first round of pleadings and objections in the first of many lawsuits, let along getting a permit or even starting construction.
In fact, from what we are seeing about the vote count in California, I’m not sure they will even get the votes from November 8’s election counted in 200 days, let alone building a complete LNG terminal.2
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1 Guy Chazan, David Sheppard, and Camilla Hodson, “LNG site eases Germany gas rationing fears,” Financial Times, November 16, 2022
2 As of the time this item was posted, eith days after the election, the percentage of the vote counted in U.S. House races in California was from 46% to 86%. It’s a good thing California is so solidly Democratic that it pretty much doesn’t matter when it finally gets its votes counted.
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1 Guy Chazan, David Sheppard, and Camilla Hodson, “LNG site eases Germany gas rationing fears,” Financial Times, November 16, 2022
2 As of the time this item was posted, eith days after the election, the percentage of the vote counted in U.S. House races in California was from 46% to 86%. It’s a good thing California is so solidly Democratic that it pretty much doesn’t matter when it finally gets its votes counted.
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