Save The Bay Executive Director Jonathan Stone has publicly made a number of factually incorrect and highly misleading statements regarding proposed LNG shipments in Narragansett Bay. This LNG Fact Check Video is the first of a series that documents Mr. Stone’s public statements and sets the record straight regarding the safety, security, environmental impacts, and [...]

Weaver’s Cove Energy President Ted Gehrig responds to misleading claims about LNG facilities and earthquakes in this Sunday, March 21st  Providence Journal letter to the editor: No earthquake menace Ann Morrill’s March 9 letter, “Earthquakes and LNG,” deserves a response. Not even Patrick Barosh (Ms. Morrill’s geology/earthquake expert) has claimed that dredging and drilling operations [...]

Testimony of Gordon Shearer, CEO, Weaver’s Cove Energy Before the Rhode Island Senate LNG Task Force March 9, 2010 Ladies and gentlemen: Thank you for allowing me to come before you today and discuss our LNG project in Fall River, Massachusetts. In my testimony today, I will cover three areas. First, I will talk about [...]

Today’s Providence Journal has an op-ed from Ted Gehrig, chief operating officer of Weaver’s Cove Energy, responding to false and misleading claims made by by Rhode Island State Rep. Douglas Gablinske: In their Feb. 6 Commentary piece (“Safety, convenience and flounder all argue against LNG”), Rep. Douglas W. Gablinske and four other state representatives claimed [...]

At a February 11, 2010 hearing before the Rhode Island state Senate’s LNG Task Force, Save The Bay Executive Director Jonathan Stone felt free to engage in pure speculation regarding the quality of dredged sediment in Mt. Hope Bay: The sediments churned up by the dredging may contain toxic materials that have accumulated on the [...]

The environmental extremists at Save The Bay have recently launched a high profile campaign to defeat Weaver’s Cove Energy’s offshore LNG berth project that would bring $700 million in investment to Southeastern New England and increase the region’s supply of clean-burning energy by up to 20%. In a series of billboards, newspaper and radio ads, [...]

In a February 2009 letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Rhode Island State Senator Walter Felag (D-District 10, Bristol, Tiverton, Warren) raised a number of unfounded and unsupported concerns about the safety, environmental, and economic impacts of Weaver’s Cove’s LNG project in Mt. Hope Bay. Below is a point-by-point response and rebuttal to the [...]