Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch commended Friday the U.S. Coast Guard’s recent finding that the revised Weaver’s Cove LNG plan “affords no margin for navigational error and appears unsuitable in its current state, when considering the intended vessel size, cargo and number of transits,” according to the finding.
Lynch was referring to a letter released earlier last week by a top Coast Guard official finding, in short, that too many public-safety concerns exist for the Coast Guard to recommend the latest plan put forth by Weaver’s Cove Energy LLC.
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The changes that the backers of the proposed Fall River LNG terminal made to their plan – after their original plan was already approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission – will triple the number of bridge closures, hike security costs to state and local governments, cause increased traffic delays and cause further interruptions of recreational and commercial uses of the federal channel through Narragansett and Mount Hope bays, the attorney general’s office claims.
“With this finding, the Coast Guard is telling Weaver’s Cove that it won’t address how it will provide security for the passage of the LNG tankers until Weaver’s Cove addresses the significant public-safety concerns inherent in its new plan,” Lynch said in a statement.
Weaver’s Cove has less than a month to address the Coast Guard’s concerns, according to Roy A. Nash, captain of the port, Southeastern New England.
