No more terrorist attacks please, we’re tired
Posted on January 25, 2005
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In Wired, again with the terrorists:
Companies are beginning to gear up for LNG [Liquified Natural Gas - C.] imports. As many as a dozen new terminals are expected over the next decade. To many energy experts, fear of a devastating LNG fire from an accident or terrorist attack is the toughest obstacle facing the industry.
Once upon a time when “whoa nelly! That thing could blow up!” there were other, statistically more probable means by which ignition might occurr. So could we stop with the terrorists for a bit and get back to, say, the militia, or raving sociopaths, or children with matches, or maybe even the solar energy consortium?
One major event and a couple of feeble-assed attempts (unless you count Oklahoma City, but that was by a good ol’ American so I’m not sure it counts) does not a pandemic of paranoia require.
Or, alternately, if all those terrorists out there could get the lead out and step it up a bit to justify the media hysteria that’d be peachy too. Just so long as the schizm between reality and hyperbole narrows in one direction or the other.
(Incidentally this story fits perfectly my theory of Wired headline deconstructionism. Here it is from their RSS feed:
Industry watchers expect as many as a dozen new LNG terminals to be built in the next decade as imports increase. The possibility of a devastating fire from an accident or terrorist attack may be the toughest obstacle facing the industry.
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