Today’s Providence Journal features an editorial noting how Japan’s LNG terminals are serving as a critical source of energy for the earthquake and tsunami stricken nation. Editorial: LNG to the rescue Local politicians, trolling for popularity, have exploited citizens’ highly exaggerated fears of a liquefied natural-gas project planned for Fall River. No energy source is [...]

An editorial in today’s Providence Journal comments on the safety of LNG shipping and the poor precedent that would be set by efforts to defund the FERC regulatory process for Weaver’s Cove Energy’s proposed offshore berth in Mount Hope Bay and onshore LNG storage facility in Fall River: Editorial: LNG: Public over politics It may [...]

On September 1, 2010 the U.S. Coast Guard issued a denial of an appeal filed by Weaver’s Cove on January 7, 2008. Two days later, on September 3rd , members of Rhode Island’s Congressional Delegation issued a press release suggesting that the Coast Guard’s denial “affirmed that the waterway is navigationally unsuitable for LNG shipments [...]

On September 8th, a a “Congress of Councils” for area elected officials will be hosted by the Jamestown LNG Threat Committee.  Because representatives of Weaver’s Cove Energy have not been invited to participate in either the LNG Threat Committee meetings or the upcoming Congress of Council sessions, the letter and video fact check below are [...]

In 2009, Congress passed legislation requiring the United States Coast Guard to evaluate the potential navigational safety and security impacts to vessel traffic for both recreational and commercial waterways users associated with Weaver’s Cove’s LNG project. The Coast Guard recently completed and published its report entitled “Impact of Fall River, MA Liquefied Natural Gas Facility [...]

In part II of our LNG Fact Check Video of Save The Bay Executive Director Jonathan Stone, Weaver’s Cove Energy sets the record straight regarding Mr. Stone’s factually incorrect and highly misleading claims regarding the supposed use of private security forces for LNG transits, bay closures, bridge closures, unannounced LNG ship visits, and the impact [...]

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 [...]

An editorial in today’s Providence Journal notes that large ocean going vessels regularly transit the waters of Narragansett Bay without negatively impacting recreational boaters or hitting area bridges. Proposed LNG shipments into Narragansett and Mt. Hope bays will similarly have minimal impacts on recreational boating and pose no threat to “bridge safety.” From the “Bay’s [...]

Save The Bay Leadership Council and Rhode Island Marine Trades Association member Michael Keyworth has publicly made a number of false and highly misleading statements regarding proposed LNG shipments in Narragansett Bay.  This LNG Fact Check Video documents Mr. Keyworth’s statements and sets the record straight regarding the safety, security, impacts on other bay users, [...]

A number of local organizations including the Newport County Chamber of Commerce, the Preservation Society of Newport, and the Aquidneck Island Planning Commission have made unsubstantiated claims that future LNG transits through Narragansett Bay will scare away cruise ships that increasingly call on Newport Harbor. This quote from a Preservation Society of Newport press release [...]