"It's been the slowest year I’ve had," says Scott Adams, as he watches lunch customers trickle into the Frying Pan, the restaurant he has owned for 23 years near Lusby in Southern Maryland. The rustic eatery on Route 765 is just a few miles from Dominion Cove Point, a massive yet stagnant facility built in the 1970s to import liquefied natural gas (LNG).
But dramatic change is on the menu at the Frying Pan and at Cove Point. The plan is to get things moving by reversing the flow of gas. Richmond-based Dominion Transmission wants to invest $3.8 billion—one of the largest corporate investments in Maryland history—and start exporting the gas, suddenly so plentiful in the United States thanks to the advent of revolutionary hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling methods.
Take the link to read "An energy dilemma at Md.'s Cove Point" by Peter Galuszka from June 14, 2013.