In a letter to the editor published in the Fall River Herald News, Weaver’s Cove Energy rebuts the inaccurate and misleading  earthquake risk claims made by Patrick Barosh.  Due to an editing error, Weaver’s Cove’s full response was not published in the newspaper.  The full response is provided below. http://www.heraldnews.com/opinions/x767226740/LETTER-LNG-already-earthquake-safe LETTER: LNG already earthquake-safe Patrick [...]

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 [...]

Opponents of Weaver’s Cove LNG often argue that the project has not analyzed the risk of a potential earthquake. For example, in an April 2009 Providence Journal letter to the editor, Bristol resident Patrick Barosh claims: The possible use of Mount Hope Bay as an unloading site for liquefied natural gas needs to be rejected [...]