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May 22, 2008

Coast Guard: Second LNG appeal denied

The Coast Guard yesterday denied an appeal filed by an energy company to its decision that a proposed liquefied natural gas facility in Fall River was unsuitable for tankers.

Weaver’s Cove Energy filed the appeal request with the First Coast Guard District in Boston after an unsuccessful appeal to the Coast Guard’s captain of the Port for Southeastern New England.

In December, Capt. Roy Nash, captain of the port at the time, agreed with the initial October decision, that the necessary channel from Prudence Island, R.I., to the Fall River site was unsafe and had an “unacceptably high” risk of casualty. He upheld the initial decision.

Rear Adm. Timothy Sullivan of Boston’s First Coast Guard District said he reached the same conclusions in a statement released yesterday:

“After a thorough review of the detailed appeal by Weaver’s Cove Energy, I support Captain Nash’s decision that the waterway is unsafe in the vicinity of the Brightman Street Bridges for the transit of LNG tankers because of the same navigational hazards previously addressed.”

Weaver’s Cove can appeal, finally, to the Coast Guard headquarters in Washington, D.C.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 10:14 AM | Permalink

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