THE NATION - News from April 14, 2009
The Commerce Department announced its opposition to a proposed massive floating liquefied natural gas terminal in Long Island Sound.
Environmentalists and politicians in New York and Connecticut have campaigned for years to stop what would be the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas terminal.
About the size of the Queen Mary 2, the terminal would be the length of four football fields, about eight stories high and located nine miles off Long Island. After New York Gov. David A. Paterson ruled against the project last year, Broadwater -- a consortium of Shell Oil and TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. -- appealed to the Commerce Department.
The department said the project’s “adverse coastal impacts outweighed its national interest.”
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