Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy is hoping that a little Long Island hospitality
will soften Connecticut's opposition to the Islander East pipeline that would
bring more natural gas across that state and the Sound to Levy's constituency.
The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzpipe075755213jul07,0,7953866.story
LNG
Concerns
Energy
prices may be going through the roof. But some plans to add capacity
by building liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities are being driven
under. Will those efforts thwart America's
attempt to expand its energy arsenal? Global markets for LNG are
escalating, necessitating more investment in production, transportation
and re-gasification. The industry is attracting billions from top
tier players that weigh their investment decisions. Risks abound.
But the overwhelming demand for new natural gas supplies appears
to trump other considerations.
Read more...
July 8 (Bloomberg) -- Samsung Heavy Industries Co. will
deliver the world's biggest liquefied natural gas tanker to Exxon Mobil Corp.'s venture in Qatar in August,
adding capacity to the market for the cleaner-burning fuel. Read more...
Broadwater
files appeal
Broadwater Energy has appealed New York's
objection to its plan to moor a floating liquefied natural gas terminal
in Long Island Sound, nine miles off the coast of Wading River. The
energy company, a joint venture of Shell Oil and TransCanada Pipelines,
filed its appeal Friday with the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Carlos
Gutierrez.
Broadwater is asking Mr. Gutierrez to override
the New York Department of State's April 10 ruling
that the energy company's proposed floating liquefied natural gas
terminal in Long Island Sound was inconsistent with the state's
coastal zone management policy.
In a 21-page brief, Broadwater
argues that its project is consistent with the objectives of the
federal coastal zone management act pursuant to which the state's
coastal policies are promulgated. The facility furthers
the national interest ... in a significant or substantial manner,
the national interest furthered it outweighs the
activity's
adverse coastal effects, and there is no
reasonable alternative available, according to the
brief.
By Judy Benson
Published on 6/6/2008 in Home »State »State News
Riverhead,
N.Y. - Broadwater Energy announced today that it has filed an appeal
to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce related to New York State’s
Department of State decision to deny permission to locate a floating
liquefied natural gas terminal in Long Island. Read more...
A New Jersey-based venture yesterday proposed a cheaper and, to some
environmentalists, preferable alternative to facilities like Broadwater
for bringing more natural gas to the New York region: pipelines connected
to buoys 15 miles off the Jersey coast, to which liquid natural gas
tankers would deliver regassified fuel.
In his
speech before hundreds of people gathered at the Columbia River Maritime
Museum Monday, former President Bill Clinton presented his case for
making Hillary Clinton the Democratic nominee for president. Chief
among his arguments was her stance on liquefied natural gas. Read
more...
On 4/28/2008, the following Filing was submitted
to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Washington
D.C.:
Docket(s): CP06-54-000
CP06-55-000
CP06-56-000
Filing Type: General Correspondence
Description: Request of Broadwater Energy LLC, et. al. that the
consolidated record be compiled and transmitted to the Secretary
of Commerce under CP06-54-000, et. al.
Energy: No
Floating Gas Plant; States Weigh Options
By JOHN RATHER
NOW that New York has
rejected Broadwater Energy’s floating natural gas plant in Long Island
Sound, New York and Connecticut will rely on gas pipelines, conservation and
renewable energy sources to meet emerging power needs, officials and others
in both states said.
Can Broadwater sail on?
Is New York State's decision last week
on Broadwater's floating liquefied natural gas terminal the last
word on the project -- or isn't it? A federal agency, after all,
just two weeks earlier approved a permit to construct and operate
Broadwater's proposed floating LNG terminal.
Broadwater Energy, the Shell Oil-TransCanada
Pipelines joint venture proposing to build the LNG terminal in
the middle of Long Island Sound, says it is thinking about appealing
the state's ruling.
Broadwater opponents, meanwhile, say an appeal
is meaningless, because the project would be tied up in legal
proceedings for such a long time that alternative LNG projects,
such as a floating offshore terminal already proposed for the
Atlantic Ocean, would be approved in the interim, rendering Broadwater's
plan moot.
Critics say liquefied natural gas is difficult
to secure, expensive to produce and not much cleaner than coal-generated
power. Do
mestic
production of natural gas is falling as demand continues to shoot up,
a situation that over the past few years has positioned liquefied natural
gas as an energy saviour.Read more
MILFORD — Gov. M. Jodi Rell threw a little beach party Thursday
to celebrate New York state's rejection of the controversial Broadwater
liquefied natural gas platform in Long Island Sound. View Full Story
As New York Gov. David A. Paterson pronounced the Broadwater barge
as "behind
us" Thursday and project opponents here and in Connecticut congratulated each
other, the promoters of the Long Island Sound gas terminal showed no signs of
being ready to give up.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Sen. Hillary
Clinton is trying to use opposition to siting liquid natural gas
terminals in Oregon to narrow Sen. Barack Obama's apparent lead
in the Democratic presidential primary.
Clinton's campaign staff said
Tuesday she spoke against a provision of the 2005 Energy Policy Act
that took away state authority over siting LNG ports — and
she opposed the final bill while Obama voted for it.
Clinton domestic policy director Catherine Brown
said in a conference call with reporters that this shows the New York
senator has a far greater commitment to the issue than Obama, despite
his lending support as a co-sponsor to a bill introduced by Sen. Ron
Wyden, D-Ore., to restore state control. Read more...
Broadwater Energy released poll results yesterday showing overwhelming
support on Long Island for its natural gas barge, but the survey
itself came under sharp attack.
Under chilly, overcast April skies, two Connecticut U.S. reps., the
state’s
attorney general and other elected officials made a united plea to New
York’s governor Monday to reject the Broadwater
LNG facility in Long Island Sound.
If New York Gov. David A. Paterson refuses, and his decision
may be known as early as Wednesday, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal
vowed at the Monday gathering at the Stony Creek dock “to straitjacket
Broadwater in the courts so that a safer, saner project takes its place.” Read
more...
Saying No to Broadwater
Editorial March 31,
2008
Here is our position on Broadwater, the quarter-mile-long floating
energy barge in Long Island Sound that could supply New York and
Connecticut with a billion cubic feet of natural gas a day — provided
it wins regulatory approval, is built as planned and doesn’t
get blown up by terrorists or sunk by market forces:
Let’s not.
It is not necessarily the most obvious call.
But the benefit that Broadwater promises — convenient satisfaction of the region’s
ravening energy appetite — is overcome by more pressing long-range
concerns, like finally curbing the addiction to fossil fuels and
preventing another industrial incursion into Long Island Sound.
Despite having been instantly and nearly unanimously condemned by
public officials and environmentalists on both sides of the Sound,
Broadwater has passed several tests since it was introduced in 2004.
It is now up to New York State to determine whether the project meets
environmental standards under the Coastal Zone Management Act and
the Clean Water Act.
New York regulators and Gov. David Paterson may be the last hope
for scuttling the project, although officials in Connecticut have
promised federal lawsuits, too, if that is what it takes. The battle
will certainly go on for a while. Anti-Broadwater activists have
expressed serious doubts about whether the federal review of environmental
impact was thorough enough. They have also raised credible doubts
that the market will even support this huge commitment to new infrastructure.
Long Island Sound could probably survive the
addition of a permanent industrial barge the length of four football
fields, and fishing boats and pleasure boaters could probably learn
to cope with gas tankers, and everyone could probably live with
the remote possibility of a big gas explosion in the Sound. But
it’s not worth the
accumulation of these insults to the Sound and its stressed ecosystem.
Natural gas is cleaner than oil or coal but still a globe-warming
fossil fuel.
One crucial caveat remains: By steadfastly opposing
this project over the gas industry’s insistence that the region needs it,
Broadwater’s critics are committing themselves to bearing the
cost of the cleaner, greener way. This means a serious commitment
to energy conservation and serious investments in wind and solar
power, and in retooling existing power plants for efficiency and
cleanliness.
03/21/2008 | 03:30 PM Three
days before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's final approval
Thursday, March 20, of Broadwater, a liquefied natural gas barge that
the Shell Oil subisidiary proposes to moor nine miles off the coast
of Wading River, the Village Board had put on record its opposition
to any fixed LNG operations in the Long Island Sound. Read more...
News 12 LI - Special Broadwater Report
III and IV (03/26/08) WOODBURY - The claim that Broadwater Energy?
s natural gas terminal will save Long
Island residents money is proving to be a sticking point in the debate
over the company's plan.
March 27 2008, 6:36 PM EDT A little-noticed action by federal energy
regulators will increase natural gas supplies for Long Island and parts
of New York City by about 10 percent in the next 19 months -- helping
to meet growing demand and, in the view of some, reducing the need
for gas from the proposed Broadwater barge in the Long Island Sound.
The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzpipe0328,0,4371130.story
Paterson shouldn't dawdle on the decision, but
should talk $$ with Shell
March 24 2008
The window for a decision on Broadwater is getting narrower.
Federal energy regulators last week gave their final approval
to build the nation's first floating liquid natural gas
terminal in Long Island Sound. Now New York State has to
determine as quickly as possible whether this $1 billion
project can deliver on its promises.
01:00
AM EDT on Sunday, March 23, 2008 By
Daniel Whitten
Bloomberg News
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
on Thursday approved a liquefied natural gas terminal for Long Island
Sound even though the United States will have almost four times more
import capacity than it can use by 2012 because of a shortfall in
fuel supply, according to a report from consultant PFC Energy.
"Conn. Officials Plan
To Fight Broadwater - Connecticut News Story - WFSB Hartford"
March 20, 2008...The Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission today approved Broadwater Energys application to build
and operate a floating liquefied natural gas terminal in the middle
of Long Island Sound.
FERCs approval was widely anticipated. The commissions
staff issued its final environmental impact statement in January,
which concluded the LNG terminal would not have significant environmental
impacts.
At the commissioners regular monthly meeting
this morning, webcast live from Washington, D.C., FERC Chairman
Joseph Kelliher said the project meets all federal environmental
and safety standards.
The dramatic downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer will have far-reaching
impacts, and one of them might be in the middle of Long Island Sound.
The governor's voice was expected to be vital in helping determine
whether a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal should be built in
New York waters not far from Connecticut, and his sudden resignation
because of a sex scandal leaves his state's intentions up in the air.
The massive Broadwater terminal would be built just outside Connecticut's
part of the Sound, which leaves our state out of the regulatory loop.
The federal government has already offered its blessing, mistakenly,
so one of the last hopes to stop this privatization of a major public
resource falls to New York. As the potential principal beneficiary
of the project, our neighbor state's opposition is far from guaranteed.
Our own Gov. M. Jodi Rell, basing her remarks on reports from a task
force she set up to examine the project, termed the proposal "an environmental
nightmare." She's right, but she unfortunately has little say in the
matter. Major authority falls to New York's governor-in-waiting, Lt.
Gov. David Paterson, who takes office today. His feelings on the matter
are a mystery, and he has said he might delay taking a position.
WASHINGTON — Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell sought
Monday to delay federal action on a proposed liquefied natural gas
platform in Long Island Sound as a new governor takes over in New
York. View Full Story
3/14/2008 in Home -- A top executive
of Broadwater Energy has described Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell's
characterization of a task force report on his firm's proposed liquefied
natural gas terminal for Long Island Sound as “vitriolic and
factually flawed.” The governor doesn't see it that way. Read
more..
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Given the sex scandal surrounding New York Gov.
Eliot Spitzer, Senate President Donald Williams wants Connecticut to
reach out to his lieutenant governor and persuade him to oppose Broadwater.
Company Moves To Line Up Customers For Controversial
Proposed Natural Gas Facility
By MARK PETERS Courant Staff Writer March 6 2008
Even as controversy continues over the Broadwater liquefied natural
gas terminal proposed for Long Island Sound, one of the companies behind
the project is taking steps to sell the natural gas that would be delivered
through the terminal.
Those of you who have been following the progress
of Broadwater's controversial proposal to build one of the world's
largest LNG (liquefied natural gas) platforms in Long Island Sound
10. View
Full Story
In a full-frontal attack on the dozen liquefied
natural gas terminals proposed along the coast of California and
Oregon, a Bay Area environmental group says the purported "clean
energy" is as bad as coal and will harm the state's much-vaunted
push to cut greenhouse gases in the coming decades. Read
more...
Local environmental activists and politicians
are calling for state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to investigate
Broadwater Energy's "false advertising" campaign, which they say
misleads the public about energy savings and attempts to drum up
political support before the governor decides in April whether
or not the project can go forward.
"They're saying the average family will save
$300 with Broadwater, and that's false," said Richard Amper, executive
director of the Pine Barrens Society, a group that's a member of
the Anti-Broadwater Coalition. "We've talked to people in the energy
business and economists, and they have said that is false."
A recent launch of television, print and radio
ads by Broadwater Energy claim a floating natural gas terminal
proposed for Long Island Sound by the joint venture of Shell Oil
and TransCanada Corporation would save island households $300 per
year in energy costs. This claim is being disputed by area environmentalists,
who sent Mr. Cuomo a letter Wednesday asking him to investigate
the advertisements.
02/15/2008 New York's decision to delay for two
months its ruling on the proposed Broadwater liquefied natural
gas project for Long Island Sound is another indication of the
project's problems, according to a top Connecticut official. Read
more...
Patricia Eddington
(D-Medford); Leah Schmalz; Fred Feingold; JoAnn Attison; Keith Hecker;
Stuart Leopold February 17 2008... Broadwater threatens the Sound
Friday, February
15, 2008... The final Broadwater Environmental Impact statement was
recently released by
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and, after reading it, one
can
conclude that the document is best described as a sales brochure for
the Long Island Sound floating, supertanker-size liquefied natural
gas factory. Read
more...
BOSTON - The Coast Guard is monitoring
and assisting a Liquefied Natural Gas tanker, which lost
propulsion and is disabled and adrift with 29 people aboard
approximately 35 miles east of Chatham, Mass. The vessel
is not in immediate danger and is drifting away from Cape
Cod. The 933-foot tanker Catalunya Spirit, carrying a full
load of LNG from Trinidad and Tobago to Boston, became
disabled about 3 a.m., this morning. The tanker crew is
making hourly situation reports to Sector Boston. Additionally,
Air Station Cape Cod is planning to deliver a Coast Guard
marine inspector and a technical representative to the
Catalunya Spirit today. The Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba
is on scene with the tanker to assist with communication.
Teekay Corporation, the company that operates Catalunya
Spirit, has contracted two tug boats to assist. The tugs
are expected to arrive on scene with the Catalunya Spirit
at 11:30 p.m. A second Coast Guard marine inspector is
aboard one of the tugs. Current weather is 30-35 knot winds
with 12 foot seas and is forecast to diminish overnight. "As
part of our response plan, we've notified our National
Strike Team, and we're coordinating salvage and pollution
response assets," said Capt. Gail Kulisch, Captain of the
port of Boston. "A very comprehensive safety system has
been developed by the Coast Guard in conjunction with port
partners and the shipping company to minimize the risk
to the marine environment and public safety."
Is the Sound up for sale?
Valentine's Day is coming and Broadwater
Energy wants to win your heart. And it's come calling
with more than a box of chocolates and a dozen roses.
The would-be natural gas provider has an open checkbook
and the deep pockets of its owners, Shell Oil Company
and TransCanada Corp., to tap for cash to influence public
opinion.
Broadwater has initiated a media blitz
in what might be -- should be -- the last days of opportunity
to gain New York's approval for its plan to moor a huge
floating LNG terminal in the waters off the coast of
Wading River. In TV, radio and print ads throughout the
metropolitan region, Broadwater is crowing about its
purported benefits to the Long Island economy and local
residents, including a $300 "median household annual
savings" on energy costs for Long Island residents.
(02/05/08) DEER PARK - The heads of Shell
Oil Company and Broadwater Energy have presented a $150,000
check to United Way of Long Island, but many are questioning
the sincerity of the gift. The money is slated to go toward
?Project Warmth,? a program to help struggling Long Island
residents heat their homes over the winter. However, Shell's
visit to the Island comes just a week before the New York
Department of State rules whether or not to approve the
placement of Broadwater's liquefied natural gas barge in
the Long Island Sound.
Some say the timing of the donation plays
out like a publicity tactic. Adrienne Esposito, of the
Anti-Broadwater Coalition, says it is part of a setup to
make Broadwater look good. She says the money doesn't make
a bad project right.
Representatives of Shell defend the move.
?It is absolutely in the interests of Shell and our participation
in the community to be part and parcel of the charitable
giving of the community and we do that everywhere across
the country,? says Shell Oil Company President John Hofmeister.
Environmentalists also take issue with Shell Oil's rare
sit down with Gov. Eliot Spitzer a couple of weeks ago.
Esposito says the governor needs to realize the issue is
not about energy, but about protecting the Long Island
Sound. The New York Department of State is making its ruling
on Broadwater Feb. 12.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 03:45 PM EST...
Broadwater Energy’s plan to bring liquid natural gas
to Long Island would save the state and the region money while
providing what the federal government. Read
more...
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, in
a filing today, said that New York cannot grant Broadwater
Energy an easement in Long Island Sound for its proposed
massive liquefied natural gas terminal because the company
has provided inaccurate and incomplete information. Blumenthal
filed additional formal comments today with the New York
Office of General Services (OGS) after Broadwater provided
inaccurate and incomplete details about its facility in
seeking an easement for its project in Long Island Sound. Read
more...
Friday, January 25, 2008 Gas-producing
countries will discuss the idea of forming a "gas OPEC" along
the lines of the existing oil cartel this summer in Moscow.
Members of the existing Gas Exporting Countries Forum
had appointed an expert to look at the idea. http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=55838
"Both the proposed Broadwater
Project and the Islander East Pipeline Project would
be within the same general offshore area," it says ".
... See all stories on this topic
Spitzer's
meeting with Shell CEO raises concerns
(01/29/08)
WOODBURY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer?s position on
the proposed Broadwater natural gas barge remains
unknown, but a recent meeting between the governor
and an oil executive has some environmentalists
worried.
News 12 Long Island has
learned Spitzer sat down with Shell CEO
John Hoefmiester two weeks ago. A Shell
spokesperson confirmed the meeting.
"In a real democracy
all voices are heard, not just the wealthy
voices,? Adrienne Esposito, of Citizens
Campaign for the Environment, said.
Esposito said the most
she?s been granted was a meeting with the
governor?s deputy environmental aide. She
said if Spitzer meets with the oil company,
he should hear the other side too.
Environmentalists and
a number of Long Island residents have
come out against the project that would
put a liquefied natural gas terminal in
the Long Island Sound nine miles off the
north shore.
A spokesperson for the
governor said Spitzer has no additional
meetings scheduled with Shell officials.
Calls to Broadwater officials were not
returned.
January 31, 2008--Educated at Princeton
and Harvard Law School, Eliot Spitzer is obviously a
smart man. But when it comes to politics, he is getting
his education at the school of hard knocks, and learning
the ropes on a very public stage. First there was "trooper-gate." That
was followed by the driver's license fiasco. The new
governor had a very rough first year.
A new year is barely under way and
Mr. Spitzer has made another unfortunate misstep, declining
to meet with environmental activists opposed to the proposed
Broadwater liquefied natural gas plant and then agreeing
to meet with the CEO of Shell Oil, a partner in Broadwater
Energy. What was he thinking? Read
more...
January 30 2008 When an energy company
and Baltimore County government square off in a federal appeals
court today, the arguments might have widespread interest
beyond whether a liquefied natural gas terminal should be
built on Sparrows Point. Read
more...
January 27, 2008 The promise of Broadwater
is cheap natural gas for Long Island from a new, reliable
source. After four years of hearings, studies and protests,
it remains unclear whether Shell Oil and TransCanada's
proposed $1 billion liquid natural gas facility for Long
Island Sound can fulfill that promise. Read
more...
FEDERAL approval for the liquefied natural
gas plant that Broadwater Energy has proposed for Long
Island Sound got closer this month when the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission staff concluded that the project,
with 86 recommended changes, would have limited environmental
impact. Read
more...
LNG
permits prove tough
Broadwater partners have abandoned previous plans By
John Henry 1/24/08
Even corporate powerhouses don't always
get their way. That's worth noting as the final stage approaches
in the approval process for Broadwater Energy's proposed
liquefied natural gas terminal in mid-Long Island Sound.
Whether the controversial project goes forward remains to
be seen, but in recent years the corporate behemoths behind
it -- Royal Dutch Shell and TransCanada Corp. -- abandoned
plans for three other terminals. As with Broadwater, each
of these projects was fiercely opposed by local community
groups. Read
more...
01/24/2008 In its final report, the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission stated that if 86 actions
are taken, the project would have "limited adverse environmental
impacts" to the Sound. Read
more...
01/18/2008 FERC's impact statement draws fire on all
fronts. Local, state and federal officials have come out with a resounding
chorus of dismay in response to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's
Final Environmental Impact Statement for Broadwater, the liquefied
natural gas floating storage and re-gasification unit proposed for
Long Island Sound. Read
more...
January 16, 2008... As state attorneys general in Connecticut
and New York, Democrats Richard Blumenthal and Eliot Spitzer were
political soulmates, particularly when it came to pooling legal resources
and clout to protect the environment. Read
more...
Broadwater gas plant debate rages onby JAMES
NASH (Stamford Times)
January 17, 2008....Broadwater released results of
a poll this week saying 63 percent of survey participants supported
the company's proposed liquid natural gas [LNG] terminal when told
the project could save Connecticut residents about $400 in annual
energy bills. Broadwater estimates the terminal would bring $680
in yearly savings to the region. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[FERC] released a draft environmental impact statement on the Long
Island Sound LNG project last year. Read
more..
January 17, 2008....Hey,
guess what? You know that 1,215-foot-long gas terminal Shell Oil
wants to build in a public waterway in the Long Island Sound off
the coast of Wading River? Read more...
Gov. M. Jodi Rell had justification for effectively
declaring an all-out war Friday on plans to build the potentially
hazardous Broadwater liquid natural gas facility in the middle of
Long Island Sound, just 11 miles from Branford. Read
more...
You read it
here first. Three years ago, mere weeks after Broadwater Energy debuted
a plan to cite a Queen Mary-sized liquefied natural gas platform
in the Long Island Sound, The Independent raised the question: Could
the government protect the enormous platform, not to mention boaters
and the public on shore if terrorists attack? An editorial in the
January 12, 2005 edition expressed doubts. Read
more...
Friday,
January 11, 2008 A well-known Nigerian militant group said Friday
it detonated a remote explosive device that caused a fire on a
tanker and said it got help carrying out the attack from people
in the energy industry and Nigeria's intelligence services. http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=55218
January
14 2008 Gov. M. Jodi Rell had justification for effectively declaring
an all-out war Friday on plans to build the potentially hazardous
Broadwater liquid natural gas facility in the middle of Long Island
Sound, just 11 miles from Branford. The complete article can be
viewed at: http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-broadwater.artjan14,0,5273239.story
1/11/2008 U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney joined two of his
congressional colleagues Thursday in citing a newly released government
report as further evidence that Broadwater Energy's proposal to park
a huge liquefied natural gas processing and supply barge in Long
Island Sound should not win federal approval. Read
more...
January 11, 2008, 2:55 PM EST... Federal energy regulators
have concluded once again that the controversial Broadwater natural
gas terminal can be built and operated with "limited adverse
environmental impacts" if certain conditions are met. Read
more...
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) — The
U.S. Coast Guard doesn’t have ample resources to secure ports
handling energy commodities such as liquefied natural gas, according
to a report issued by the Government Accountability Office. Read
more...
Jan. 7, 2008...Gov.
Eliot Spitzer's tough times in 2007 could make 2008 a better year
for those who'd like to permanently sink the Broadwater natural
gas barge proposal, some political pundits believe.Read
more...
Broadwater Energy's proposed mid-Sound liquefied
natural gas facility would have serious adverse environmental impacts
and its permit applications will not be approved by the N.Y. Department
of Environmental Conservation unless the company can demonstrate
how those impacts will be mitigated, according to a "notice
of incomplete application" issued Dec. 21 by the state DEC. Read
more...
As a concerned Long Islander, I wonder why Shell Oil
Company wants to site the Broadwater LNG (liquid natural gas) factory
in Long Island Sound on the New York side rather than the Connecticut
side of this water body. Why was there a Newsday picture of New York
City Mayor Bloomberg with Shell Oil's president at a recent Urban
League national convention? Why is Shell Oil being sued for human
rights violations? Why did Broadwater/Shell give $10 million dollars
to a mainly African-American organization? Why did LIPA hire a consultant
to undertake a so-called "independent" study of Broadwater?
Why do recent Greenpeace studies report that LNG is a filthy fuel,
almost as dirty as coal? Puzzling over these questions led me to
undertake research that helped me understand the truth about Broadwater. Read
more...
NIGERIA SEEKS BIGGER SLICE OF OIL PROFITS
Thursday, December 13, 2007 Nigeria is beginning
the deepest overhaul of its petroleum industry in decades, a move
expected to make it tougher for big operators such as Royal Dutch
Shell to profit from tapping Africa's biggest oil-producing country. http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=53965
December 13, 2007 Opponents of the liquefied natural
gas terminal proposed for the middle of Long Island Sound say Exxon's
proposal for a similar plant will hurt Broadwater Energy's chances
of getting federal and state approvals. Read
more...
12/13/07... It happened more than three decades before
anyone ever heard of Broadwater Energy's novel $700-million-plus floating regasification
terminal proposed for mid-Long Island Sound. Read
more....
DALLAS (AP) — Exxon Mobil Corp., the country's
biggest oil company, said Tuesday it wants to anchor a floating liquefied
natural gas terminal 20 miles off the coast of New Jersey. Read
more...
State legislator eases into debate
By Brian Lockhart Staff Writer
December 2, 2007...State Rep. Terry Backer, D-Stratford,
is passionate about two things - protecting Long Island Sound and
weaning the state off its dependency on foreign oil. Read
more...
Broadwater may creep into presidential politics
by Rick Brand
December 9 2007...With all the attention on caucuses
in Iowa and the first primary in New Hampshire, Hillary Rodham Clinton
and Rudy Giuliani have enough problems with their shrinking leads
in national polls. Read
more...
December 5 2007 Opponents of the Broadwater
Energy liquid natural gas terminal say they have forwarded to federal
regulators and Gov. Eliot Spitzer the signatures of another 20,000
people on petitions contending the facility proposed for Long Island
Sound would be an environmental threat and would interfere with
regional commercial and leisure activities. The complete article
can be viewed at: http://www.newsday.com/business/autocorner/ny-bzbroad055487966dec05,0,1306202.story
December
2007... An Un Sound Plan (The Day) If you thought the Broadwater
plan to build a floating liquefied natural gas terminal in the middle
of Long Island Sound was one of the worst, environmentally abominable
ideas ever proposed for the 110-mile-long estuary, consider the plan
announced recently by a New York multimillionaire.Read
more...
(11/13/07) WHITE
PLAINS - A proposed plan to build a floating natural gas plant on
the Long Island Sound was the focus of a hearing Tuesday in White
Plains. Read more..
AntiBroadwater Lobby Day in Albany
Photo by Casey Gobbi
On 10/26/2007,
the following Filing was submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC), Washington D.C.:
Filer: NEW YORK, STATE OF
BROADWATER ENERGY, LLC
BROADWATER PIPELINE LLC
DEWEY & LEBOEUF LLP (as Agent)
Docket(s): CP06-54-000 CP06-55-000
Filing Type: General Correspondence
Description: Stay Agreement between Broadwater Energy LLC and Broadwater
Pipeline LLC and New York State Department of State under CP06-54 et
al.
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Norwich — The public will have a chance to learn about
and comment on a project to increase the size of Algonquin
Gas Transmission's pipelines through southeastern Connecticut
during a meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at City Hall... Read
more...
November 2 2007 Gov. Eliot Spitzer yesterday appointed the
chief Albany lobbyist for the cross-sound Broadwater energy
project as a senior adviser in his administration, raising
the eyebrows of some Long Island opponents of the proposal.
On 10/26/2007, the following Filing was
submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC),
Washington D.C.:
Filer: NEW
YORK, STATE OF
BROADWATER ENERGY, LLC
BROADWATER PIPELINE LLC
DEWEY & LEBOEUF LLP (as Agent)
Docket(s): CP06-54-000
CP06-55-000
Filing Type: General Correspondence
Description: Stay Agreement between Broadwater Energy LLC and
Broadwater Pipeline LLC and New York State Department of State
under CP06-54 et al.
said he was "getting cynical about the critics" of the LNG plant and
urged environmentalists to be willing to compromise on
the issue. ... See all stories on this topic
