Jacksonville's natural gas boom – Why here, why now?

The sudden interest in building and operating liquid natural gasification plants in Jacksonville raises a natural question: Why here and why now? People in the know aren’t sure exactly why Jacksonville is leading the LNG pack on the country’s East Coast, but clearly the port makes Jacksonville an attractive place to produce LNG, “an obvious anchor, with a level of consumption that would justify the investment of hundreds of million of dollars these facilities require,” said Jeff Sheffield, executive director of the North Florida Transportation Planning Organization...