Campaign Contributions to Federal
Candidates and Amount Spent Lobbying the
Federal Government By Major Developers
of Proposed LNG Projects Since 2001
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Company
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LNG Facilities Being Developed
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Total Contributions
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% to GOP
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Lobbying Expenses
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| Amerada Hess/ Poten & Partners |
Weaver's Cove (Fall River, Mass.) |
$178,520 |
9%
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$2,540,000 |
| BP |
Crown Landing (NJ); Bay Crossing/Pelican Island (Galveston, TX) |
831,636 |
68%
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11,284,000 |
| Cheniere Energy |
Freeport, TX; Sabine, LA; Corpus Christi, TX; Creole Trail (LA) |
60,400 |
43%
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460,000 |
| ChevronTexaco |
Casotte Landing (Pascagoula, MS); Port Pelican (Gulf of Mexico) |
1,871,223 |
77%
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17,459,296 |
| ConocoPhillips |
Sound Energy Solutions (w/ Mitsubishi, in Long Beach, CA); Gulf of Mexico (Compass Port - off AL and MS; Beacon Port, off TX and LA) |
858,075 |
84%
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7,448,150 |
| Dee S. Osborne |
Gulf LNG Energy (LNG Clean Energy Project, Pascagoula, MS) |
139,658 |
99%
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| Dominion Resources |
Cove Point, Maryland (expansion) |
2,036,804 |
68%
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1,900,000 |
| Downeast LNG |
Maine |
500 |
0%
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| El Paso Corp |
Elba Island, Georgia (Southern LNG) |
2,114,693 |
78%
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5,203,226 |
| Excelerate Energy |
Offshore MA - Excelerate was founded by Oklahoma investor George Kaiser |
49,950 |
1%
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| ExxonMobil |
Golden Pass LNG (Sabine, TX); Vista Del Sol (Corpus Christi, TX); Pearl Crossing (off-shore LA) |
2,190,342 |
90%
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29,745,717 |
| Freeport-McMoRan |
Venice, Louisiana |
368,578 |
79%
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965,000 |
| JP Morgan Chase |
Haddington Ventures, which runs Gulf Coast LNG, which is proposing Calhoun LNG (Port Lavaca, TX) |
4,256,106 |
46%
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1,341,300 |
| Northern Star LNG / Crystal Energy |
Northern Star LNG (with Babcock & Brown as a partner) in OR; Clearwater Port (developed by Crystal Energy, with backing from Small Ventures USA (Founder and Owner - William Perkins III) and RAM Energy Trading. |
249,404 |
87%
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100,000 |
| Occidental |
Corpus Christi, Texas |
1,095,820 |
75%
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8,258,795 |
| Sempra Energy |
Port Arthur, TX; Cameron LNG (formerly Hackberry, Louisiana LNG); Baja California, Mexico (partnership with Shell) |
683,326 |
33%
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7,845,901 |
| Shell |
Broadwater (partnership with TransCanada, Long Island, NY); Baja California, Mexico (partnership with Sempra) |
421,059 |
56%
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16,919,540 |
| Southern Union |
Trunkline LNG in Louisiana |
41,816 |
49%
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| Westgate Capital |
OK-based Westgate controls Quoddy Bay, which has partnered with Maine's Passamaquoddy Tribe to build the Pleasant Point LNG facility |
6,500 |
100%
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| Suez (Tractebel) |
Neptune LNG (offshore Boston) |
40,634 |
64%
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820,000 |
| TOTAL |
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$17,495,044 |
67%
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$112,290,925 |
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