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Protests mar public hearing
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Locals oppose the move fearing that it would rob them of their lands and jobs. Complain that no assurance was made to provide them jobs in the upcoming facilities. Village heads issue orders to banish people from villages if anybody supports the company.
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The public hearing for setting up LNG Floating Storage Unit (FSU) at Krishnapatnam Port held at Tamminapatnam village under Chillakur mandal on Tuesday saw vehement opposition from the local crowd resulting in the uproarious scenes. The hush-hush hearing that was not even communicated to the media personnel went on clandestinely. The Joint Collector and PCB officials of the district attended the hearing. Local people who attended the hearing raised their objections to the proposed LNG unit. They alleged that the decision had already robbed them of their lands and jobs.Local fishermen community resisted establishment of the gas storage unit and announced their complete opposition to the same and declared ‘Durayi’ on the issue. It is a traditional way of imposing restrictions on the local fishermen population not to cooperate in any way to the authorities of the unit. Village Kapu issued an order that people who support the unit would be banished from the village. However, Lieutenant Murthy Jasti, Managing Director of LNG Bharat Limited and GAS Transmission India Limited sought to allay the fears of the people, but to no avail. They explained that the unit would serve only as a LNG storage point, and Krishnapatnam port had allocated 120 acres of land and there would no question of rise in pollution levels. They said they would not manufacture anything there and appealed to them to cooperate, and assured their support for progress of the region.
The LNG Floating Storage Unit (FSU) is being set up at Krishnapatnam Port by LNG Bharat. The Rs 1,000 crore project will come up at the Port area in Nellore district and the five million tonne per annum (MMPTA) greenfield storage and handling facility will help import gas from other countries. The project has a maximum capacity of 10 MMPTA, to be upgraded in Phase-II. In Phase-I, raw material LNG will be imported and transported to customers directly. The FSU project will come up on 120 acre of land in the Krishnapatnam port area. The company initially proposed for a five MMPTA unit within 40 acres of land and it upgraded it to a maximum of 10 MMPTA where it requires 120 acres of land, as per guidelines of the Ministry of Environment and Forests.
Hyderabad-based LNG Bharat is a unit of Rajahmundry-based KEI-RSOS Petroleum & Energy (KRPEL) that operates five on-shore oil and gas fields in the Krishna Godavari basin. The Greenfield unit consists of onshore storage tanks, cryogenic road tanker loading and regasification facilities at the Krishnapatnam Port. So, natural gas could soon be available to the industrial belt of Rayalaseema districts in south Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and north Tamil Nadu from the upcoming five million tonnes per annum LNG import terminal. The unit will commence its construction and commissioning would probably by the last quarter of 2017.
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