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How Japan has helped fuel the Gulf South’s LNG boom

A liquefied natural gas tanker docks at Venture Global's Calcasieu Pass LNG, an export facility that started operating last year on the coast of Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
Halle Parker
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A liquefied natural gas tanker docks at Venture Global's Calcasieu Pass LNG, an export facility that started operating last year on the coast of Cameron Parish, Louisiana.

Today we bring you the first part of the final episode of Sea Change’s special series “All Gassed Up.”

Hosts Carlyle Calhoun and Halle Parker travel to Japan where they find out the country is making a big bet that good times in the liquefied natural gas industry will keep rolling. We’ll hear what that could mean for the Gulf Coast and our future climate.


Today’s episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Ryan Vasquez. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber; our contributing producers are Matt Bloom and Adam Vos; we receive production and technical support from Garrett Pittman and our assistant producer, Aubry Procell.

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Ryan Vasquez is the news director for WWNO and WRKF. He has a 17-year career in public broadcasting with stops at Alabama Public Radio and WUFT in Gainesville, Fla.