Federal Anti-Broadwater Bill May Affect Other LNG Proposals
Posted on Apr 17, 2007 in Environmental, Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Federal Anti-Broadwater Bill May Affect Other LNG Proposals
United Press International reports that H.R. 1564, a bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Tim Bishop to block Broadwater Energy’s proposed terminal in Long Island Sound, also may affect several planned facilities off the Massachusetts Bay Estuary and in Louisiana’s Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary. The bill would ban floating storage regasification units from “estuaries of national significance.”