OUR VIEW: Time to move on, 03-30-08
She simply wants to go.
Despite opposition and virtually all levels of government, Weaver’s Cove trotté to officials still poorly attempted one in Fall River’s shore. During CEO Gordon Shearer requirements of the new proposal - this time for an offshore LNG unloading station at Mount Hope Bay, two miles south of the Braga Bridge - is a viable project, that “addresses the interests of “referred to above, it sent a rather desperate, final round, a little luck gathering.
The only concern, the proposal is understandable, the fear that a shipment highly flammable, volatility of the substance Taunton River port narrow canal, under bridges highly traveled. Weaver’s Cove is completely ignored the overwhelming opposition - from the United States Coast Guard - Rhode Island and contempt for the rule of law, but also comfortable unterspielend the fact that large quantities of LNG were still being stored in tanks and spit massive houses and the distance Commerce.
Coast Guard Capt. Roy Nash, head of the State southeastern port of Massachusetts, was very clear in his opposition to the LNG tankers sailing Mount Hope Bay and Narragansett Bay. Shipping costs to conduct LNG from the Atlantic Ocean to Fall River is “unfit for navigation from the perspective of security, the nature, size and frequency of LNG marine traffic related, a Nash written in October a letter from his spelling opposition.
They can not be clearer than that.
But just in case Weaver’s Cove still not received - they are clearly not - the State of Rhode Island presents one more reason for energy companies to give their campaign sentenced. LNG carriers could stay close to Rhode Island’s waterfront, of the proposed Off-shore from the discharge, which is prohibited by the laws Ocean State. In addition, the proposal calls for dredging in Mount Hope Bay, has been rejected by both the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management and Rhode Island’s Coastal Resources Management.
RI Attorney General Patrick Lynch, her condition shows no signs of relaxing its opposition to be any time soon, indicating that the offshore industry proposal is “on the border with numbness in his boldness, the stupidity and greed” and “shows its contempt for human beings As a general rule, never mind the environment.”
As much evidence Weaver’s Cove, it is not welcome in the South Coast? What would you say local opposition? Fall River Mayor Robert Correia, but acknowledged that the Weaver’s Cove a concession by renouncing testing, the LNG carriers Taunton River, the project is not “a viable option. It is impossible to get rid of the threat. ”
City Council President Joseph Camara, the best way if Shearer’s Plan somewhere outside of the station of the Taunton River: “It is on the right track. Now, he should be entitled to keep and the Pacific Ocean. ”
You did it by hand Shearer: there is nothing, if not permanently. Despite strong opposition from almost any angle, and the legal decisions that make each LNG controversial proposals, Shearer walking with forecasts impossible. “We are going to not give up this project,” he said.
Here’s hoping that soon. According to the latest proposal absurd to its decline inevitable, Weaver’s Cove should come to the same conclusion, any reasonable person who reaches for a long time: Fall River is not only a place for a viable business that facilty memory of the scale, to the banks of the Taunton River.
Mr. Shearer, it’s time to move on.