Similar shortcuts are being pushed at other proposed LNG export facilities in Louisiana, Texas and Oregon. This, apparently, is what the "fast-tracking" of gas exports looks like. At Cove Point, nearby residents have recently been told to prepare for a six-story tall "vapor cloud containment wall" around part of the plant. It's a first-of-its-kind and untested barrier made necessary in the haste of cramming this export facility right between existing neighborhoods and Little League baseball fields. No other LNG export facility in the world has been proposed so close to so many people. And none has been proposed so close to nuclear reactors. Cove Point would be less than three miles from the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant. (Why worry about "loose nukes" in Russia when we're creating a possible LNG-to-nuclear mishap right here at home, a stone's throw from the Capitol dome?)