PORTLAND – As a mother watched her two children run around on the playground at Simpson Park, a protest against Cheniere Energy, an LNG export facility in Gregory that is visible at the park, took place Saturday.
The protest started earlier in the day as local environmental groups, including Texas Campaign for the Environment, met in downtown Corpus Christi to start a caravan.
As people drew up posters and gathered snacks at Coastal Bend’s Texas Campaign for the Environment office, Autumn Hensiek-Fain, exports organizer for the nonprofit, said people in the community should be concerned about what Cheniere Energy is doing.
“For the past couple of months, we have been pressuring Cheniere Energy CEO Jack Fusco to make a swap with some of the equipment they’re using at their Gregory facility,” Hensiek-Fain said. “Due to their benzene and formaldehyde levels coming under the allowed limits set for by the EPA, they are able to operate gas combustion turbines.”
Hensiek-Fain said she would like Cheniere Energy to switch to electrical turbines, which she said would be a safer alternative.