The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners has nixed a proposed LNG terminal in the Port of Long Beach, citing a flawed environmental impact report as well as stalled negotiations.

The $750 million facility was to have processed up to 68 million barrels of liquefied natural gas annually, and was proposed by a partnership formed by an American subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Electrical Corp. and Houston-based oil giant ConocoPhillips.

The LNG terminal has been hotly contested since it was first proposed. Environmental and community opponents claim it’s inherently unsafe to place an LNG facility so close to a major population center. Some 85,000 people live within three-miles of the site with another 350,000 within five miles.

The harbor board took its action after the Long Beach City Attorney Robert Shannon submitted an opinion that an environmental impact report conducted on the project was flawed.

“Simply put, this is the wrong project in the wrong location,” said Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, who was quoted in the Long Beach Press Telegram.

There are at least four other LNG projects being proposed in the Southern California area.