Calvert Cliffs State Park and LNG plant

Some brief footage I took of the landscape and Dominion's LNG plant off of Cove Point. I shot some footage in infrared as well and swapped the red/blue channels. I shot with a Panasonic Lumix FZ18 with a Hoya R72 filter.

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• chesapeake
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• infrared

[Rapappport]

What is that "pier"? It looks like an oil rig. Is that part of the nuclear plant? Love your vid of the cliffs and the surreal vids of the area. What an environmental statement!!

[MasterGeorge]

@Rapappport

It's a terminal where liquified natural gas is offloaded from big tanker ships. I've been meaning to visit the park while there is a ship in but there hasn't been one there in a bit due to some construction going on.

[Rapappport]

@MasterGeorge Liquiified natural gas must be [art of a successful nuclear plant? Right?

[MasterGeorge]

@Rapappport

I think it's used more for heating people's houses and stuff although I know the nuclear power plant is not too far south of there.

[Rapappport]

@MasterGeorge I am not against nuclear power per se, because it is a "clean" form of energy. However a nuke plant does need water, with heated water released into water (the Bay) and the problem of storage of nuclear waste, not to mention Chernobyl and TMI meltdowns. Still, it sure beats oil and gas drilling and other toxic pollutants. Gulf residents are finding this out big-time. I would hate to see any of that in the greatest and most unique Bay in the US, with its great wildlife and fossils.

[MasterGeorge]

@Rapappport

I agree, it's nice, but it has it's drawbacks as well. Every so often they wash these spongelike balls through the cooling system to wash away barnacles and stuff and sometimes they end up on the beach here. They're not radioactive or anything but they're still putting stuff into the environment that way as well.

[Rapappport]

@MasterGeorge I don't think that any of the underground fossil fuels were meant to be dug up at all. The fuels were/are underground for a reason. They are toxic.

Meanwhile, before oil was discovered around 1836, all these millennial, centuries, decades, years, weeks and days, we have wind, the sun, geological heat, trees, water tables and everything readily available.

I sympathize with the bleak work of the miners, but hate the energy corporations that make miners risk lives even today.

[ARCOPWNS]

looks like an alien planet with that filter on