European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tto1 doily Magazine liquefied natural Gas like unloading Eldont worry most Maryland area Tom Ferguson glad to get floating bombs of liquefied natural Gas by Richard Lyons new York times s Eaman Tom Ferguson stood atop the coast guards 150yearold Lighthouse at Cove the other peered through the Glass at the 920footlong Tanker Riding High on the Chesapeake Bay a mile away and muttered to a visitor in glad in being transferred out of Here this the the Al was the first of a new class of liquefied natural Gas tankers to unload a cargo of Mil lion cubic feet of Gas from Algeria at the new offshore Ter Minal Here that juts Over a mile into the Bay from a Point across from Maryland Eastern Shore about 60 Miles South of congressional and environmental groups have con tended that in the absence of a Federal policy regulating the safety of liquefied natural Gas such enormous ships ire floating bombs capable of blowing up and incinerating everything for Miles with equal the Al past company and the Industry have insisted that the ships Are Safe and that the alleged dangers Are All far whatever the merits of the most Al the Redd eats of that Rural area of Southern Maryland in Magly  care less u there really is safety daring the annual Bull roast of the local american legion Arick lore Post it was the Quality of oysters Fried and stewed that dominated the Region of Fertile farms and Bountiful fishing is populated by serious eaters who Are less concerned with the possible Lon term threat that technology May pose to their easy going Way of life than its immediate effect on their the Only thing about the terminal that seemed Ujj irk the watermen and planters was the imposition by Joe coast guard of a Noemi Desquare safety Lone around of terminal that is barred to Small and thus to the of striped oysters and our Best fishing complained Allen the owner of the fishing boat Island weve got crab pots in that area atone and Tell us we cant fish there any a 30yearold construction while slathering a thick layer of Barbecue sauce slab of sizzling beef and told a questioner that the had helped temper the normally High a employ country with virtually no worked on that and having the terminal Doest bother me a he not everyone is Seaman who is 23 years old and from Browns said that a sister ship of the Elpaso sonata race steamed into the terminal a few weeks ago As part of a test run and was struck by a severe storm that bad raged up and Down the the mooring lines were snapping All Over the he its a Good thing it was if one of those things Ever u would take the whole Cove Point said Gary a civilian executive of the Navy who was planting Spring vegetables in the Garden of his weekend Home a few Hundred Yards from the i have mixed Hemmig told a imported liquefied Gas is Good for the country because we need the natural Gas Doest pollute and the com is paying a lot of taxes to the so in in of even if there u a safety on that officials of the Elpaso which together with such subsidiaries and corporate cosponsors As the Columbia Long corporation originated the billion insist that the transport of liquefied natural Gas to entirely Columbia who manage the unloading and storage facility nevertheless barred visitors from the terminal while the Sonn Trach was the total project of the Elpaso company of Houston involved not Only the terminal at Cove but also one like it at Elba As Well As a Fleet of nine storage facilities and while the Gas is being fed into the Grid of pipelines that will carry it to users up and Down the East the Cove Point facility will be paying about million in taxes to Calvert the sleepy Tidewater area has already been favored with fun million a year from two nuclear Nower plants built near the terminal by the Baltimore Gas and electric As a local taxes have been cot the people in the county Are so pleased with the in creased tax revenues that there not bothering to look at any safety said Dennis the managing editor of the county weekly the Pence Frederick Mcgee said that he had been posing questions about safety of the Gas As Well As radioactive wastes from the nuclear and other local Environ mental bul we just dont get any letters about May 1978 for the tankers bring the stars and stripes Page 13