Baltimore County officials will consider legislation that would ban liquefied natural gas plants from certain environmentally sensitive areas, renewing legal strategies to thwart a proposed LNG terminal at the Sparrows Point shipyard.

Councilman John Olszewski, D-District 7, said he will introduce a bill Tuesday evening to add LNG terminals to a list of prohibited facilities in the county?s designated Chesapeake Bay Critical Area. The bill will be the council?s second specifically targeting a Virginia-based energy firm?s plans for a $400 million plant just off the Key Bridge, following a zoning change adopted in June that banned LNG facilities within five miles of a residential area.