SOMERSET — Somerset has joined Fall River, 11 Rhode Island towns and a handful of public officials in signing a resolution opposing an offshore liquefied natural gas terminal proposed by Weaver’s Cove Energy, the Herald News reported on Thursday.
The two-page resolution has been circulating since August but Somerset didn’t sign on earlier because the Conservation Commission was reviewing the LNG project’s application. On Monday, the commission upheld a dismissal.
The opposition’s resolution says tankers to the offshore terminal would be vulnerable to terrorist attack and shipments would require closing the Pell and Mount Hope bridges to allow tankers to pass underneath. It also cites concerns over the risk of causalities if the liquefied gas were to explode.
