Mr. Aaron Samson

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  Published on: 8/22/2008    Last Visited: 8/27/2008  

  And with an additional proposal in place to construct a smaller pipeline that will run to the capital from Ocean Cay to supply Nassau's energy needs, AES' Project Director Aaron Samson, believes that the energy giant now has the full attention of the Bahamas government.
  
  He is therefore hopeful that both projects will move forward soon.
  
  "We need to get a decision going and try to get this project built," Samson told the Bahama Journal Tuesday.
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  According to Samson, the new and "usual" LNG pipeline proposal for Nassau would not affect or disturb the bottom of the tongue of the Ocean and it all depends on route selecting and ensuring that sensitive areas are not impacted when surveys are conducted.
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  However, local environmental activist Sam Duncombe reiterated to the Bahama Journal Tuesday that Samson needs to understand that the proposed AES pipeline project has really outworn its welcome in the Bahamas.
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  Meanwhile, Samson said every country in the world that does not have natural gas really wants it and those that have natural gas wants more."It's the cleanest fuel in the world that we use," Samson insisted."Every major environmental group in the world acknowledges that more natural gas and less coal and oil are part of the solution to global warming.It's a terrific move and its huge economic benefit for the Bahamas and comes with very significant environmental changes to go to natural gas from diesel fuel."
  
  Samson said after seven years of negotiating with both the Progressive Liberal Party and the Free National Movement governments in the Bahamas, he is still optimistic that AES would receive approval to construct both pipelines.
  
  "I am very optimistic.I think it takes time for people to analyze it and look at the range of potential savings and the environmental benefits, and for BEC to analyze what they think of the conversion of fuel," Samson said.
  
  The AES Project Director said over the past two months, his company engaged a number of businesses where he touted the benefits of an LNG pipeline, and their efforts have been well received.
  
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  It,s too early to predict what the zones would be for LNG tankers coming up the Bay and offloading in Baltimore. ,We don,t expect it will be much different [from the zones imposed around vessels offloading at Cove Point],, says Aaron Samson, managing director of LNG projects for AES Corp.

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  Published on: 4/30/2007    Last Visited: 4/30/2007  

  Aaron Samson, a managing director of AES Ocean, said the decision provides clarity on key issues for industry expansion and "opens up more supply sources that can come into this country."

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  Published on: 2/13/2008    Last Visited: 2/13/2008  

  In a recent interview with The Guardian less than a week ago, AES' Director Aaron Samson said he was still "fairly optimistic" about the project and that the company was hoping it would receive approval from the government to move things forward in the future.

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  Aaron Samson, Managing Director of LNG for AES, said while the company has not decided to cancel the project, it hopes that the government would rule in its favor sometime soon, as it is looking at some other proposals at the same time.
  
  "It's hard to say time's up after seven years, but there are competing proposals out there and it's a little bit of a race.When another one gets built, it's not that the other one won't get built, but it might not get built for five years," says Samson.
  
  "This project represents about five years of Florida growth.People ask, why are you still here after seven years?Everything I do takes three to five years.We've built big power plants and LNG terminals and they all take that time frame.So after seven years you're getting a little tired," said Samson.
  
  He was speaking at a special LNG presentation for engineers at the SuperClub Breezes on Wednesday night.
  
  AES Corp. purchased the aragonite mining plant at the 90-acre man-made Ocean Cay in the Spring of 2001, solely to invest $650 million to construct, own and operate a LNG pipeline.The company wants to build its pipeline between Ocean Cay, Bimini, and Dania Beach, Florida.It also proposes to construct a terminal to receive liquefied natural gas via ocean tankers, store the liquid gas, re-convert it to natural gas through warming and send it to the U.S. via a 94-mile pipeline.
  
  Samson said this destination is advantageous for a number of reasons and added that the elements of the project have improved over the years.
  
  "The fundamentals of the project are actually getting better.Gas prices are much higher, so I'm getting a little fixed fee in the middle here to process BP, Exxon or Shell's LNG for a fee and send it to Florida.My fee has gone from 40 cents five years ago to 60 or 70 cents today, because of steel prices in Florida," he added.
  
  "So the fundamentals have gotten better.

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  Published on: 4/25/2007    Last Visited: 4/26/2007  

  AES managing director Aaron Samson, managing director of energy company AES Corp. of Arlington, Va., told The Patriot Ledger of Quincy that opposition to placing the terminal on Outer Brewster Island led to the company's decision.
  
  "It's a great site and it's got all the technical attributes that make it correct, but it's got all the other issues to go with it," Samson said.
  
  Two other projects for LNG terminals off the coast of Gloucester have received state and federal approval.
  
  "We still are monitoring the events up there for what's going to get built or not built, but it's getting a little crowded," Samson told the newspaper.

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  Published on: 7/31/2007    Last Visited: 7/31/2007  

  "These projects are never easy," said AES' Director Aaron Samson in an exclusive interview with The Nassau Guardian on Monday from Virginia."There are not many of these facilities in the world, so they are not understood and there is a lot of misinformation. [LNG] is a big and new type of industry for The Bahamas and so a certain amount of delay is understandable, and from the amount of time the new government has had to look at it, we are not in a position to complain yet.We did not expect for a new government to come in and make this the first thing that got managed, but we are hopeful that we can get their attention."
  
  Samson said he is aware that the FNM government is still absorbing a number of projects, but noted that AES is hopeful that LNG is on the government's agenda and some positive decision is given within the coming months.
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  "The concept of getting an LNG project through the government in under three or four years is not very much the case in any country, let alone a country that has never done one before," Samson explained.He added, however, that AES is still "hoping and expecting" that the six-year-wait would have been shorter.
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  If granted approval, AES' operations would pump some $20 million in direct revenue to the government, growing to a total of up to $1 billion over the 25-year life of the project, according to Samson.

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  Published on: 4/24/2007    Last Visited: 4/24/2007  

  The AES Corp., the Virginia-based power company that is planning the terminal, sent Managing Director Aaron Teal Samson to discuss the project.Facing heavy questions about safety and port traffic, Samson said the project meets the company's own safety standards, as well as those of Richard A. Clarke, a former White House terrorism official turned consultant whose findings were questioned by many at the hearings.
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  Samson said he lives within a mile of another potential LNG project that AES proposed in Connecticut.
  
  "Maybe I'm foolish," he said, "but I believe in the science and technology."
  
  After being asked several times, Samson said he did not have specifics about how much profit the terminal would generate.He said he imagines that it would bring a return of between 11 and 12 percent on the company's $800 million investment.
  
  Rep. Steven.C.LaTourette, a Republican who represents Northeastern Ohio and is the subcommittee's ranking member, said he was confident in the industry, but still concerned about the threat of terrorism.
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  Samson, of AES, pointed out that delays will not be severe, and noted that the terminal would bring more than 100 vessels to the port each year.

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  In a recent interview with The Guardian, head of LNG projects for AES, Aaron Samson said the details of the new proposal were currently before the government.
  
  "We are actively in talks with the government and hope to wrap up the process soon," he said.

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  Published on: 12/1/2003    Last Visited: 8/1/2009  

  Aaron Sampson, the AES Ocean Express project director, expressed confidence to the Business News Americas news agency that the EIA submitted earlier this year to the Bahamas Environmental, Science and Technology (BEST) Commission would be approved, removing the major obstacle to the company beginning construction of its $300 million LNG terminal.

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