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April 6, 2006

Governor pushing N.E. Gas to clean up Tiverton land

PROVIDENCE - State authorities are trying to block the $498 million sale of New England Gas's Rhode Island assets until the firm submits a plan for cleaning up contamination affecting more than 100 properties in Tiverton.

"It's very frustrating when you have a gas company that's dragging its feet," Governor Carcieri said at a news conference today. "No one's going to run away from their responsibility as far as I'm concerned."

The threatened government intervention came as a group of Tiverton residents led by Gail Corvello presented Carcieri and Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch with 700 petitions requesting that the sale to National Grid be blocked until their land is clean.

Carcieri today authorized the state Department of Environmental Management to file a motion to intervene.

-- Associated Press

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