After years of construction and battles against activists, Maryland’s Cove Point LNG Export facility is set to come online this quarter.

It has been a long and bumpy ride for Maryland in the last few years in regards to natural gas. Since moving to Maryland in late 2008, there has been no shortage of confusion, delusion, and hope that the state will make the right call for our economic future.

Three years ago, one of my very first posts on NaturalGasNow was discussing Cove Point, a liquid natural gas (LNG) export facility. Cove Point was then an import facility and Dominion, a Virginia-based energy company, was undergoing the $3.4 billion upgrade to transform this little-used facility to become an export hub of LNG. Little did I know at the time, that the Three Amigos in opposition: former-gubernatorial candidate Heather Mizeur, Ann Bristow, Ph.D. of the Savage River Watershed Association and Paul Roberts, a founding member of CitzenShale, an anti-fracking environmental group, would become all too common names in the ongoing fight for all natural gas fights.

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