The voles of Hoo Pen

04/13/2009
As industrial facilities go, LNG terminals are generally among the cleanest and quietest to be found. But every terminal has to start somewhere. And that starting place comes with a history.It may be the pristine coastal forests of Oregon or Maine. Or, as in the case of the UK’s Isle of Grain LNG terminal, it may be a site where earlier industrial activity—and nature—have left footprints.Beneath the gleaming, visually impressive terminal on the Thames estuary in north Kent lie some legacy effects of the previous tenant, the BP Kent oil refinery. And before even that, some furrier tenants called the site home.Building the terminal there had to contend with both realities....

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