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, [...]

On July 30, 2009, U.S. Coast Guard Captain of the Port, Sector Southeastern New England, issued a Letter of Recommendation (LOR) for the Weaver’s Cove Energy Offshore Berth Project. The LOR determined that the “applicable portions of Narragansett Bay and Mt. Hope Bay be considered suitable for the type and frequency of LNG marine traffic [...]

Representative Raymond Gallison has embarked on his fourth legislative initiative aimed at blocking the Weaver’s Cove’s LNG project. His latest attempt, like the others, has no basis in fact and is almost certainly unconstitutional. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and U.S. Coast Guard have taken account of Representative Gallison’s stated concerns and have consistently discounted [...]

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 [...]