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May 1, 2008

Somerset asks: Can Gov. Patrick ban new LNG plan?

SOMERSET, Mass. -- The Board of Selectmen has asked Gov. Deval Patrick if he has authority to ban the new Weaver’s Cove LNG project proposed for the middle of the Mount Hope Bay.

In a letter to the governor signed Wednesday, the three say that when an offshore LNG terminal was proposed for Gloucester, Mass., ``we understood that former Governor [Mitt] Romney had the authority to veto that project.’’

Board members are hoping that Patrick has that authority, and that the governor will shoot down the new plan, which calls for parking supertankers in Somerset waters and piping the liquefied natural gas four miles to a storage tank at the Weaver’s Cove site in Fall River.

The LNG would travel through an insulated pipeline that would run just of the town’s waterfront and be buried in the sediment.

All three selectmen oppose the project.

In their letter, they say they are ``concerned about this new proposal in Mount Hope Bay and the Taunton River given the sensitivity of the fragile marine environment. There are also public safety concerns as well, raised by the Board of Selectmen and the residents of our town.’’

-- Journal staff writer C. Eugene Emery Jr.

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