Malibu, Ca  News Federal agencies criticize proposed gas terminal off coast near Malibu Monday, June 20, 2005 Editor's note: Eighteen months ago, an Australian energy conglomerate announced it had picked the offshore shelf near Malibu as the site for a floating receiving station for liquefied natural gas imports. If built, the LNG terminal would be permanently anchored 13.8 miles from Malibu's west end. Some Californians have voiced support for the project and the energy it would import. But many serious predictions of negative impacts- related to safety, terrorism and aesthetics-have been placed in a public comments file in Washington. Two weeks ago, The Malibu Times reported about federal warnings of severe seismic and ocean-floor dangers to the proposed LNG plant. This is another in a series of reports examining claims made by project

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