What if this ship lost power while it was sailing up the Narraganset enroute to Fall River? Yeah.. we hear that nothing can happen. We hear all about they safety of the design. Well.. seems in 2008 something called engine loss is still possible. Will they now promise us that three ocean going tugs will follow each ship up and down the bay as it heads into Fall River. These things belong 50 miles off shore. let them pipe the gas in from an ocean platform.

And we worry about the same thing way out here in Oregon and Washington because energy speculators backed by big bucks want to establish an LNG terminal 38 miles up the Columbia River which has a 600 ft. wide shipping channel from just past the Columbia River Bar, (often referred to as the most dangerous bar in the world,) all the way to Portland, Oregon some 100 miles up stream. Washington and Oregon share that river. Puget Island , Washington sits just across that shipping channel on the Washington side and has no say in the construction of this terminal. And we are not in need of LNG in the Pacific Northwest because we have a usable infrastructure that suits our energy needs.. I worry about Boston Harbor all the time and hope that this incident will emphasize the fact that though LNG has an excellent safety record it will not last forever. Places like Boston , Or Puget island are just a bull's eye for a horrid incident. From my research I believe that these tankers, though smaller than some have to be backed into their terminal at Distragas because of the configuration of Fall River. God Bless and keep you from a horrid experience!