PRESS RELEASES:
MALIBU Film Festival to Screen World Premiere of LNG Documentary Film
eMediaWire (press release) - USA
SUMMARY: The documentary film,
The Risks and Danger of LNG, highlights the hazards of Liquefied Natural Gas
(LNG), by demonstrating its vulnerability to accidental disaster, terrorism, and
how massive its destruction can be to our coastal communities.
eMediaWire
September
17, 2004 The documentary film, The Risks and
Danger of LNG, highlighting the hazards of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG),
is an Official Selection of the Malibu Film Festival and will have its World
Premiere screening on September 18, 2004, in Malibu.
Film producers Tim Riley and Hayden Riley, consumer protection
advocates from Oxnard Shores, California, say coastal communities throughout
America are being targeted by the energy industry for building dozens of large,
vulnerable and dangerous LNG facilities. They made the film to alert the public
to the imminent perils of LNG by demonstrating its vulnerability to accidental
disaster, terrorism, and how massive its destruction can be to our coastal
communities.
“We are pleased that our film has been recognized and is an official
selection of the Malibu Film Festival,” said co-producer Tim Riley, adding “It
is very fitting that our film would find its world premiere in Malibu, because
that coastal haven is currently being threatened by two LNG facility proposals.”
The filmmakers say the energy industry uses its tremendous economic
resources to promote its LNG agenda through endless press releases, newswires,
and commercials which routinely minimize LNG’s hazards.
“We felt we had to make the film to offset the energy industry’s
relentless spin and to vividly demonstrate to the public the actual perils of
LNG by exposing its true volatility and danger to our American communities. This
is the film that LNG proponents don’t want you to see,” says Tim Riley, who also
co-wrote the film.
The film provides a historical perspective of the first LNG disaster
which incinerated one square mile of Cleveland, Ohio, killing 128 in 1944. It
also covers the explosive Algerian LNG disaster of January 2004, which blew out
windows and caused fires miles away, adding to the LNG death toll and causing
approximately $1 billion of property damage.
“Currently, there are no offshore LNG importation facilities
anywhere on Earth. But if energy companies have their way, there will be two
untried and untested facilities right off our precious California coastline
impacting Santa Monica, Malibu, Oxnard, Ventura, Montecito and Santa Barbara,
turning those beautiful coastal communities into LNG guinea-pigs,” co-producer
Hayden Riley said.
The film highlights the City of Oxnard’s Environmental Impact
Report from 1977 when an LNG facility tried locating in that coastal city. The
report determined 70,000 casualties could result from an offshore LNG tanker
accident, but none of the risk assessments even considered acts of sabotage or
terrorism.
“We are now at war with terrorism, so the likelihood of an LNG
disaster would be even greater today,” says Oxnard Mayor Manual Lopez appearing
in the documentary.
The Rileys appeared as LNG experts before the Malibu City Council in
May of this year at the request of City Councilmember Pamela Conley-Ulich. Their
support of her resolution opposing both offshore LNG proposals helped pass it
unanimously.
According to documentary co-writer Hayden Riley, “Not only will LNG
endanger our residential communities, it will industrialize our pristine
coastlines and beaches while making America more vulnerable to terrorist
sabotage and more dependent on imported foreign fossil fuel."
Visit
www.LngDanger.com
to preview a short trailer of the film and
acquire a DVD copy.
HOLLYWOOD
October 20, 2005
15th annual Environmental Media Assn. Awards, recognizing works 
