Yergin: North American LNG exports raise hopes, what-ifs

摘要

In January 1959, a converted World War II liberty freighter named The Methane Pioneer set sail from a Louisiana port to the United Kingdom loaded with liquefied natural gas (LNG). Choked by killer fogs from the burning of coal, Britain hoped that "one way to deal with it was to import natural gas," said Daniel Yergin, a Pulitzer-prize winning author who serves on the U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board.