Harpswell Information

News Articles about LNG and new links

• 9/1/06 Factions split over LNG ‘advisory' vote
  Includes comments by our own Amy Haible

• 8/16/05 KHOU.com News for Houston, Texas Local News
  Critics: Proposed plant would negatively impact ecosystem

• 8/16/05 Natural gas hits resistance as fuel of clean-air future - Nation-Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
  Natural gas has been favored by federal and local governments as a way to reduce air pollution from buses and trains and to generate electricity, but the fuel has become a boondoggle for many public transportation companies.

• 8/16/05 LNG surges with demand [21jul05]
  SOARING demand for liquid natural gas and record high oil prices have been a boon for Woodside Petroleum, with the company boosting production and posting record levels of revenue.

• 8/4/05 Westport Minuteman - News - 08-04-2005 - Citizens talk back to Broadwater Energy
  Despite only a week's notice and despite the fact that it was a Monday night in early August, more than 125 citizens from all eight towns in southwestern Connecticut showed up to discuss whether a floating liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal should be built and operated in the middle of Long Island Sound.

• 5/27/05 It may be controversial, but LNG deserves a look
  The idea of a liquefied natural gas facility in Maine is undoubtedly a controversial one, but it's one that shouldn't be automatically discounted.

• /12/05 Eyewitness News - LNG terminals bad economics for Rhode Island, Lynch says
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch says two projects to expand liquid natural gas in and around Rhode Island are bad economics for the state. KeySpan hopes to expand its L-N-G facility in Providence to take large shipments by tanker. And the energy company Hess hopes to build an L-N-G tanker in Fall River.

• 4/3/05 If Maine wants LNG, state government has to enter the fray

• 4/2/05 Proposal challenges local power over LNGs
  WASHINGTON — A draft of the energy legislation scheduled for debate in a House committee next week could give federal regulators a stronger role in the siting of liquefied natural gas terminals, according to Massachusetts officials. The proposal would impose strict timelines for local government reviews of LNG projects, and allow Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approvals to stand if state or local authorities didn't meet the deadlines.

• 4/6/05 The Connecticut Post Online - Home
  Does Sound really need floating gas terminal?

• LNG fate sits with the town next door
  Passamaquoddy Tribe members living on the Pleasant Point Reservation say the prospect of having another community determine their economic future is difficult to accept.

• 3/13/05 New York Daily News - Boroughs - Gas barge unSound
  Local lawmakers have been making a lot of noise about the liquid natural gas terminal that an energy company wants to plunk in the middle of the Long Island Sound.

• 3/7/05 LNG developer disputes claims regarding study - Diana Graettinger
  PLEASANT POINT - The developers of a proposed $400 million liquefied natural gas terminal said Wednesday they stand by a statement on their Web site that a state analysis of the economic impacts of an LNG facility in Maine exists. Quoddy Bay LLC, along with the Passamaquoddy Tribe, hope to build a facility at Gleason Cove at Pleasant Point.  [

• 2/20/05 Alan Caruba Thwarting America’s Energy Needs
  Well of course you want the entire shoreline of the East and West Coast to be filled with windmills producing insignificant amounts of energy. Nothing better than to head for the beaches of New Jersey or California and look out on the inspiring vista of wall-to-wall windmills. And let’s not stop there. Kansas could be turned into a huge windfarm to keep the streetlights on in the Topeka.

• 2/20/05 JS Online Customers feel natural gas squeeze
  The soaring price of natural gas has hit home for both consumers and businesses.

• 2/20/05 LNG projects raise market questions
  When plans for a liquefied natural gas terminal were announced this month for a site 22 miles off the coast of Gloucester, Mass., the sponsors of a proposed LNG terminal in Washington County could not help but take notice.

• 1/28/05 ConocoPhillips to Cut Refining Emissions (washingtonpost.com)
  The nation's biggest oil refiner agreed yesterday to spend more than $525 million to clean up nine plants scattered across the country, effectively removing 47,000 tons of harmful pollution from the air each year.

• 1/19/05 LNG Authority - Bangornews.com Staff
  Buried in the massive federal budget bill passed by Congress late last year was a provision to reassert the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's authority to site liquefied natural gas terminals. In Maine, where local opposition has squelched several proposed LNG terminals, this reaffirmation could have serious consequences. Imagine FERC deciding a terminal needed to be located in Maine to ensure an adequate national energy supply. The opposition of the residents of Harpswell or Corea might be given little weight by federal regulators in making such a decision.

• 1/12/05 Rhode Island Gas Terminal Would Be Threat to City of Providence
  Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- A terrorist attack or an accident on a liquefied natural gas tanker may start a fire that destroys or damages a large part of Providence, Rhode Island's capital, if a proposed docking terminal is built, said the state's Assistant Attorney General Paul J. Roberti.

• 1/5/05 Savvy will make case for LNG project
  A group that hopes to build a liquefied-natural-gas terminal on Passamaquoddy tribal lands has hired a well-known Portland spokesman as opponents prepare to rally against the plan this weekend.

• 12/27/04 JuneauEmpire.com State & Regional Gas line will put heat on session
  Legislators may have to address done deal with yea or nay vote
  Based on this article and how Alaska is being forced to consider a liquefaction plant, I think the people of Harpswell had it easy.

• 12/26/04 Federal report should end LNG plan, mayor says
  A report issued by Sandia National Laboratories, a government nuclear weapons facility, finds that a liquefied natural gas accident could burn structures and people nearly a mile away.

• 12/26/04 Horrific on the harbor
  EVER SINCE Sept. 11 made the safety of liquefied natural gas tankers in Boston Harbor a prime concern, there has been no agreement on the extent of the destruction that a successful terrorist attack on a tanker might cause. Now a yearlong, 166-page study done for the US Department of Energy by Sandia National Laboratories has resolved the issue. The fire would be horrific, causing major injuries and significant damage to buildings a third of a mile away and second-degree burns on people more than a mile away.

• 10/31/04 LNG developers turn sights toward Canada
  Natural gas companies have not lost interest in developing terminals along Maine's coast.
  But for now all the industry action is taking place up north, where Canadians have welcomed two liquefied natural gas projects, in contrast to the negative receptions LNG projects received in places such as Harpswell, Gouldsboro and Searsport.

• 10/22/04 Down East opposition to LNG terminal grows
  WHITING - Developers may have the green light from Passamaquoddy tribal officials to build a liquefied natural gas terminal at Pleasant Point, but Canadians who plan to stop the project are looking for a red light. And they are garnering support from Americans.

•  Citizens of Three Nations Fight Quoddy Bay, LLC Terminal in Downeast, Maine
  Despite Quoddy Bay LLC claims to have worked from "the bottom up" to carefully side step opposition to their planned Liquid Natural Gas Terminal at Gleason's Cove on the Passamaquoddy Indian Reservation strong opposition has formed. This opposition comes from Washington County, the Passamaquoddy Indians and Maritime Canada those who see the terminal as a catastrophic threat to the pristine eco-system of the area as well as its economic life.
   

• 9/12/04 Critics to seek new vote on LNG
  HARPSWELL — A group calling itself We Take Care of the Homeland said Friday that it plans to challenge an August vote that authorized leaders of the Passamaquoddy Tribal Council to negotiate terms with the developer of a liquefied natural gas terminal. The group's spokeswoman, Vera Francis, accompanied by former Green Party gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Carter, met Friday afternoon in Harpswell with representatives of citizen groups that were successful in defeating an LNG project in their community. Note: You can see their request for help here.

• 9/5/04 Criticism greets latest LNG plan
  GOULDSBORO — From the pinnacle of Schoodic Head, a 440-foot peak on Acadia National Park's Schoodic Peninsula, Ken Olson doesn't need binoculars to see the location proposed for a liquefied natural gas terminal. Pittsfield-based Cianbro Corp. has selected a development site on Prospect Harbor, just five miles from the national park boundary.

• 9/4/04 Gouldsboro leery of LNG plan
  GOULDSBORO - Native lobster fisherman Mark Young knows a thing or two about large cargo ship traffic. Young, 51, worked for 26 years as a chief engineer for Mobil Oil, operating tugboats that escorted oil tankers in and out of Staten Island in New York City.

• 9/2/04 Cianbro floats plan for LNG
  BANGOR - Cianbro Corp., one of the state's major employers, wants to build a $300 million liquefied natural gas facility at the now-closed U.S. Navy communications site in Corea, a community within the town of Gouldsboro. The project, still in its initial development stages, could employ approximately 100 people in an area of the state where lobstering is the economic way of life - and lobster boats fill waterways that would have to be shared with 1,000-foot tankers en route to Cianbro's proposed LNG terminal site.

• 8/19/04 Maine tribe to allow LNG terminal on reservation
  Maine's tiny Passamaquoddy tribe voted Tuesday to open its coastal land to a new liquefied natural gas terminal, embracing an industry that other New England communities have loudly rejected.

• 8/09/04 Tribal members at odds on impact of Canadian LNG terminal
  BANGOR, Maine — Members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe offered conflicting assessments of the impact of Irving Oil´s proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in New Brunswick on a similar project on reservation land at Pleasant Point.

• 8/6/04 LNG proposal on Passamaquoddy reservation splits members
  PLEASANT POINT, Maine — Some Passamaquoddy Indians who oppose a proposed $300 million liquefied natural gas terminal on their land say tribal leaders are forcing a vote before members can become fully informed on the issue.

• 07/26/04 The Sun Herald 07-13-2004 LNG terminal hearing set

• 07/17/04 http://belfast.villagesoup.com/Community/Story.cfm?StoryID=24084
  An insider speaks out
  WALDO COUNTY (July 17, 2004): Matthew Simmons is both the ultimate insider and a challenging iconoclast. An investment banker to the energy industry, Simmons has become renowned as an analyst of the international energy business and, depending on perspective, has simultaneously been regarded as a bear or a bull. [pro-LNG, but anti LNG in Maine]

• 7/18/04 Government News - Get in the thick of it Belfast Village Soup
  WALDO COUNTY (July 17, 2004): Hillaird Lubin is unimpressed.
  More than that, he's disappointed. Actually, he's upset. "I'm trying to separate fact from fiction. ...The fear aspect on this, I think, is absolutely outrageous." [pro-LNG, and pro LNG in Maine]

• 7/12/04 al.com News
  Tanker materials could add to LNG danger
  The insulation most commonly used to keep cargoes of highly flammable liquefied gas cool during shipping is so flammable itself that dozens of workers have died in accidental shipyard fires during tanker construction and repair, according to research done by the Society of International Gas Tanker and Terminal Operators.

• 7/5/04 The Globe and Mail
  Quebec begins major LNG project

• 6/27/04 A tribe with reservations
  PLEASANT POINT — Margaret Apt calls the $300 million liquefied natural gas terminal proposed for her Passamaquoddy tribal homeland "a monster" that threatens the precious natural resources of the lovely coastal site. "We're supposed to be here taking care of the land and protecting it," said Apt, who also is known as Dolly. "I don't see how in any form we would be protecting the land if we allowed it to come in here."

• 6/25/04 Policies on LNG studied
  WASHINGTON — A congressional panel studied ways Tuesday to streamline the complex web of regulations governing liquefied natural gas, a promising energy source that has developers looking for potential sites in Maine and other coastal states. While the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or the Coast Guard ultimately decide where LNG terminals can be located, applicants typically have to obtain 100 permits, including those from state and local governments.

• 6/25/04 California Coastal Commission, City Council, Malibu Beaches
  Oxnard opposition reroutes proposed LNG pipeline

• 6/22/04 al.com News
  Feds assert control over LNG terminal siting

•  6/5/04 Cousins Island fades as LNG site

• 6/1/04 projo.com Providence, R.I. Massachusetts
  U.S. report fails to end debate over safe handling of LNG
  Opponents say the document buttresses their arguments with analysis on the fiery outcomes of certain LNG spills, while proponents say such likelihoods are being exaggerated.

• 5/26/04 Potential gas plant draws 150 to hearing

• 5/26/04 op/ed Yahoo! News - Plans have drawbacks

• 5/26/04 No undue delays for LNG projects, FERC says - May 23, 2004 - Petroleum News

• 5/16/04 The New York Times Business Fears Drain Support for Natural Gas Terminals

• 5/12/04 Got Gas - Oil isn't the only fossil fuel that's in crisis. By Paul Roberts

• 5/12/04 Education News - Get in the thick of it Camden Village Soup
  LNG tankers -- where are they going?

• 5/12/04 New proposal brings familiar LNG divisions

• 5/11/04 Cumberland cancels vote on LNG

• 5/12/04 Critics not comforted by canceled LNG vote

• 5/6/04 Forbes.com ConocoPhillips forms division focused on gas, LNG

• 5/6/04 projo.com Providence, R.I. AP's The Wire
  Company eyes five potential sites in Maine for LNG terminal

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• 4/28/04 AP Wire 04-28-2004 State files federal petition over energy terminal question
  California is challenging FERC on below

• 4/16/04 FERC Press Release
  Commission Asserts Exclusive Jurisdiction For Liquefied Natural Gas Facilities

  • 4/16/04 Long Beach Press Telegram 0,1674,204%7E21478%7E2039379,00
    Feds lay claim to LNG plant
    FERC says it, not state, has final say over planned terminal.

  • 4/16/04 FERC Office of Energy Projects
     A new branch within FERC mentioned in above article is the "Office of Energy Projects" is to be devoted to LNG issues

• 4/16/04 al.com Search
  Report sheds new light on LNG blast in Algeria
  Document suggests that deadly explosion was caused by gas vapor, not boiler
  Note: Article says that most LNG is shipped with up to 14% LPG (propane, ethane or butane) which makes makes it just as explosive as these, It also says the accident could happen at terminals.

• 4/6/04 (Christian Science Monitor) A prized energy source, or potent terror target
  Push to build LNG terminals is under fire

• 4/2 Liquefied natural gas -- Not in anyone's backyard

• 3/31 Pacific Environment
  Fifteen Years After the Exxon Valdez, Activists Raise Red Flags Over Potential Accident on Sakhalin Island (building an LNG Terminal)

• 3/26 Government News - Get in the thick of it Belfast Village Soup
  LNG opponents gather in Searsport

• 3/25  California Coastal Commission, City Council, Malibu Beaches
  Dangers of proposed LNG deepwater port discussed

• 3/24 (3/18) Gas Harbor
  Residents of Searsport are conflicted. Some believe that a terminal for ships carrying liquefied natural gas would ruin their community and keep much-needed tourists away. Others believe the area desperately needs jobs and that any type of economic development would be helpful. Some individuals harbor both these sentiments and wonder where the balance should be.

• 3/24 al.com News
  Book details LNG terror risk
  Former counterterrorism chief says threat of massive LNG incident in Boston Harbor was considered in wake of Sept. 11 attacks

• 3/24 PH Petition seeks new LNG vote

• 3/24/04 Boston.com - News - Local - Mass. officials say they were not told of terrorist threat

• 3/18 Gas Harbor

• 3/18 Times-Standard Online - Local News
  LNG debate draws huge crowd

• 3/7 State denies it has pact to sell island
  AUGUSTA — The state is evaluating Sears Island as a possible site for a liquefied natural gas terminal, but it has no agreement to sell the land to ExxonMobil Corp. or any other developer, officials said Wednesday.

• 3/5 Fishermen to consider ways to protect ocean habitat

• 3/4 projo.com Providence, R.I. Massachusetts
  City will have say in LNG hearings
  Fall River officials have won permission from the federal government to participate in legal hearings, file briefs and to receive all case-related documents.

• 3/3: LNG-plan opponents unlikely to list donors
   

• 3/3 news04-32
  Shows that unemployment in Kenai is 2nd highest in Alaska, more than twice that of the United States, and a huge amount more than Harpswell

• 3/1 LNG safety draws attention - February 29, 2004 - Petroleum News
  Receiving terminals ‘very different animals’ from Algeria liquefaction plant damaged in blast

• 3/1The Herald News
   

• 2/ 29 A selectman challenges Harpswell

• 2/29 Harpswell divided over its future

• Boston fire officials told a state panel yesterday they are unprepared to deal with the potential disaster stemming from an explosion aboard one of the giant tankers that carries liquefied natural gas through Boston Harbor.

• 2/23 Fishermen's Voice Monthly Newspaper, Gouldsboro Maine
  Will Fairwinds Blow Foul? by Catherine J. Brunton
  This is a detailed article expressing opinions from many sides

• 2/22 al.com News
  "High security is urged for LNG tankers
  Sen. John Kerry and other Massachusetts congressmen state concerns in letter to Homeland Security director

• 2/22 PH: City's tax relief illegal, court says
  The Maine Supreme Judicial Court decided Friday that Portland's fledgling property-tax relief program is unconstitutional, leaving some city officials claiming victory and others calling it a sad day for taxpayers.
  ]Note: I wonder what effect this decision will have on Harpswell's efforts to provide tax relief. Chairman Knight has suggested that tax relief, if the Project passes, might be directed at those that need it most. Selectman Weil as suggested a local Homestead Act.}

• 2/21 Government News - Get in the thick of it Belfast Village Soup
  LNG plant opposition aired
  SEARSPORT (Feb 21, 2004): Three months after a news leak revealed state officials were working with an unidentified energy group to help build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on undeveloped Sears Island, a growing opposition movement in Searsport and along the Midcoast found public voice Tuesday in Astrig Tanguay, a local camp ground owner.

• 2/21: Study predicts LNG windfall
  A proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in Harpswell would create thousands of jobs initially and generate millions of dollars in state income and sales taxes, according to state research data.

• 2/18 The Herald News
  LNG concerns voiced
  SWANSEA -- As plans for a liquefied natural gas terminal in Fall River are fought by city officials, Swansea selectmen are gearing up for a similar battle with another proposed site a little closer to its doorstep, in Somerset.

• 2/18 Agence Algérienne d'information
  Skikda’s LNG plant explosion is due to gas leak in one pipe
  Algiers, (AAI) - The preliminary results of the inquiry opened further to the accident occurred in the Skikda ’s plant of gas liquefaction revealed that the cause is not due to the defective state of the boiler but to a liquid gas leak in one pipe, Chakib Khelil Minister of energy and mining announced outside the seminar " mining and environment - symbiosis for a sustainable development " organized this Tuesday at Aurassi hotel.
  The Minister added that the board of inquiry and two other teams of experts who are studying the accident causes to estimate it would elaborate the results of the inquiry. " The decision which will be taken will take time ", the Minister estimated
  [Note: This is the article in its entirety. I have sent a message to Peter Micciche asking him for comment since he has said emphatically that there was no LNG on the site.]

• 2/16: MSNBC - Natural gas ships 'boat bombs' for terror
  Boston at forefront of national trend for more 'LNG'

• 2/14 PH New group supports Fairwinds
  A liquefied natural gas terminal in Harpswell would not be disastrous to the town's fishing industry, claims a newly formed group of fishermen.

• 2/13 PH Study Terminal will harm Harpswell
  A new financial study asserts that a liquefied natural gas terminal and underwater pipeline would irreparably change Harpswell, force the town to hire additional employees, lower property values and cause millions of dollars of damage to lobstering gear.

• 2/13 Bradenton Herald 02-13-2004 Demand grows for liquid natural gas
  Demand grows for liquid natural gas|
  HOUSTON - The nation's race to alleviate soaring natural gas bills and short supplies has leaped ahead as energy companies gear up to meet growing demand.
  But drawing natural gas from far corners of the globe will require rapid development of new infrastructure as consumption continues to surge, industry officials said Wednesday.

• 2/11 PH Study Terminal will harm Harpswell
  A new financial study asserts that a liquefied natural gas terminal and underwater pipeline would irreparably change Harpswell, force the town to hire additional employees, lower property values and cause millions of dollars of damage to lobstering gear.

• 1/26: CBS News Doing Business With The Enemy January 26, 2004 155154
  [From 60 Minutes] "He’s actually identified specific companies that have invested in these rogue countries, including Halliburton, Conoco-Phillips and General Electric. And he points out that New York's pension funds own nearly a billion dollars worth of stock in these three Fortune 500 companies, which have operations in Iran and Syria. "

• 2/4 The Herald News
  Alves: Tank is a foregone conclusion
  FALL RIVER -- If City Councilor Alfredo Alves had his way, the Weaver’s Cove Energy proposal for a $250 million liquefied natural gas import terminal on the waterfront would die on the vine.
  But with the federal government’s nearly complete control over the project’s fate and the nation’s current energy policy calling for the increased availability of natural gas, Alves sees the proposal as a done deal.

• 2/4 The Herald News
  City submits LNG report
  FALL RIVER -- The city’s six-month effort to convince the federal government that the North End is the wrong place for a liquefied natural gas import terminal culminated Friday in a report the city submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, outlining its objections to the project.

• 2/5 Task force releases report on Maine aquaculture
   

• 2/5: California Coastal Commission, City Council, Malibu Beaches
  Application completed for offshore liquefied natural gas facility
  With license application processing complete, a $500 million floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal could be in operation by 2008 just 20 miles off Ventura County and only 14 miles offshore from Arroyo Sequit, near Malibu.

• 1/31: al.com News
  Federal agency calls for major LNG review  FERC seeks study of hazards from accident or terrorist attack

• 1/30: al.com Opinion
  ExxonMobil decision leaves time for study The decision by ExxonMobil to slow down its pursuit of a liquefied natural gas terminal in south Mobile County is welcome news. So are reports that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is expanding a review of safety issues involving LNG, including last week's explosion and fire that destroyed half of an LNG terminal in Algeria.

• 1/30: The Eureka Reporter... Real News by Real People
  No One Is Talking About LNG ‘Elephant’
  Dear Editor,
  On the subject of LNG, the elephant in the room, the elephant no one is talking about is the federal government and its associated agencies that will, for the next 50 years or so, determine what, when, how long and who will use our offshore waters, our harbor entrance and our harbor.

• 1/28: Long Beach Gas Plant Could Be Boon, Curse

• 1/27: The Herald News
  FALL RIVER -- More than 130 area residents packed the community room at the Fire Department’s Commerce Drive headquarters on Monday night to air their concerns about Weaver’s Cove Energy’s plans to build a liquefied natural gas import terminal on the city’s waterfront in the North End.

• 1/26: The Australian Algeria blast a blow to gas exports [January 26, 2004]

• 1/25: Sears Island proposal stirs up concern
  SEARSPORT — The future of Sears Island is once again in doubt. The uninhabited, 940-acre island, which overlooks Penobscot Bay, was almost the site of a nuclear power plant. More recently a cargo port was proposed for the island.

• 1/25: al.com News
  Feds widen LNG safety study Results could affect proposals to build two liquefied natural gas terminals in Mobile

• 1/23 PH: Harpswell sets vote on LNG agreement

• 1/23 PH Plan for New Brunswick liquefied natural gas plant wins praise

• 1/22: The Herald News
  LNG tragedy has locals scared

• 1/22 PH: Fishermen aim to sink Harpswell LNG project

• 1/22 PH: Group organizes to oppose LNG plan for Sears Island

• 1/21: al.com News
  More bodies found at LNG blast scene At least 27 dead at facility similar to terminals proposed for Mobile Bay

• 1/21: Times-Standard Online - Local News
  LNG blast in Algeria resonates in Humboldt

• 1/21: JuneauEmpire.com Opinion My Turn Alaska, don't be fooled again 01-21-04

• 1/21: Yahoo! News - Gas Explosion in Algeria Complex Kills 23
  Gas Explosion in Algeria Complex Kills 23

• 1/20: Channelnewsasia.com
  Algerian gas plant explosion kills 23, injures 74  ALGIERS : At least 23 people were killed and 74 injured when a huge explosion ripped through a liquefied natural gas plant near the eastern Algerian port of Skikda, in the country's worst industrial accident since independence in 1962, the state energy group Sonatrach said.

• 1/20: Agence Algérienne d'information
  Strong explosion at Skikda ’s LNG plant: many killed and wounded, press reported

• 1/20 PH: Council to review study of tide flow
  Brunswick and West Bath are giving consideration to a federally funded study of the New Meadows Lake causeway that could restore tidal flows to the lake.

• 1/19: The Herald News
  FALL RIVER -- Since Weaver’s Cove Energy held public hearings in July showcasing its plans for a $250 million liquefied natural gas import terminal in the city’s North End, two distinct views of the project have emerged.

• 1/19 PH: Group forms to oppose LNG proposal for Sears Island
   

• 1/16 PH: Harpswell nearing LNG-lease accord

• 1/16 US Official Warms To Australian LNG Supply Deal
  MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)--Australia could become a key supplier of liquefied natural gas to a booming U.S. market, as demand for the clean energy source skyrockets over the next two decades, U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said Friday.

• 1/15 al.com News
  Gov. Riley demands studies before LNG  He plans to block deal until more research done

• 1/15 al.com News
  A second LNG carrier is trying to use Mobile as a terminal

• 1/14 PH Downtown blast caused by natural gas leak
  LEWISTON, Maine — Natural gas was the cause of a spectacular explosion that injured five people and blew out windows along Lisbon Street in the downtown area, investigators said Wednesday.

• 1/12: The Herald News
  Public can speak out on LNG
  FALL RIVER -- The company seeking to construct a $250 million liquefied natural gas import terminal at the former Shell Oil site off North Main Street has submitted its formal application for the project to the federal government. The agency charged with reviewing the plans has given area residents until Jan. 30 to comment on the hefty application.

• 1/12:  Better Growth Mobile, Inc.
  Primary mission of Better Growth Mobile, Inc.----"Drive the proposed liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal out of Mobile Bay, at least 30 miles offshore

• 1/10 Fairwinds Fouling up Lobster
  from the Lobster Conservancy by Diane Cowen

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  "Local Control: A Debate Over Casco Bay's Future is Brewing -- But Not Until Harpswell Votes" Some items in this article seem dated (November), but it also expresses some different views

• 1/4, (PH) 2003 Conflict and change
  This is a year end summary, which I include in a spirit of completeness. The relevant paragraphs are on the bottom half of the page

• 12/28 Boston Globe Boston.com - News - Local - Life uneasy on 'the line' with LNG
  Describes live near the Everett Plant during the Orange Alert

• al.com News
  Study talks of possible LNG disaster as result of accident

• Cheniere Energy to File FERC Applications for Two LNG Receiving Terminals

• Qatar Country Analysis Brief
  Dept. of Energy's analysis of Qatar energy

• 12/28 (News Journal)  www.delawareonline.com The News Journal LOCAL Natural gas shipment raises concern
  The article includes this quote: "The U.S. Department of Energy recently called for a reassessment of tanker industry hazards after critics said past safety forecasts had underestimated threats to surrounding areas from attacks, spills and fires. Results are due next month."

• 12/26: Portland Phoenix Features A year of division
  A year of division; Crystallizing 2003 through one small town’s battle with a giant multi-national corporation — and itself
  This is a very detailed history and discussion of the Fairwinds Project. It includes a lot of "new" information about how it came to Harpswell. It should be pointed out that Selectman Gordon Weil considers much of the article inaccurate, if not libelous.

• 12/27: Press Herald Collins seeking a delay of planned fishing rules

• 12/23: Mobile Register al.com News Scientists say LNG review is missing critical studies
  A new review of studies about liquefied natural gas safety -- ordered by the U.S. energy secretary and described by him as a "comprehensive review" -- is in fact narrowly focused, examining only three of the numerous LNG studies available to scientists, according to a spokesman for the federal laboratory performing the work.

• 12/23: Boston Globe Boston.com - News - Local - Officials stop gas tanker as Boston reacts to alert

• 12/23: Press Herald Plan urges protections for watershed
  Development in and around the New Meadows River watershed poses the greatest threat to the river's environmental quality, according to a new report.

• 12/18: al.com News: Shelby troubled by use of LNG studies
  In a Monday letter to the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, said he's troubled that federal authorities may be using scientific studies improperly in a push for new liquefied natural gas terminals across the country.

• 12/15: Boston.com - News - Local - In Maine, rewards, risks test a town
  Good article from Boston Globe about Fairwinds and issues

• 12/15: KoreaTimes What to Do When Private Development Hurts Neighbors
  Very interesting article which discusses the issue of what to do when development (LNG) helps some people and hurts others. It features "Ronald Coase, an economist on the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School, who won the Nobel prize in economics in 1991 for his work, which included what is known as the Coase theorem.

• 12/13: Press Herald Harpswell fishermen denounce gas project

• 12/09: Mobile Register: al.com News Local group spearheads national campaign
  A local environmental group, Mobile Bay WatcBayKeeper, is organizing a national network of environmental groups with the aim of sharing information and developing legislative initiatives that address the potential hazards of liquefied natural gas.

• 12/9: Press Herald Harpswell developing demands for Fairwinds

• 12/8: al.com News Study talks of possible LNG disaster as result of accident
  A confidential study commissioned by the owner of Boston's liquefied natural gas terminal suggests that an accident involving an LNG tanker could quickly evolve into a chain reaction of explosions and fires 

• 12/3: Trio's visit to Alaska natural-gas plant adds to Harpswell debate
  Includes Peter Micciche's and others response to John Loyd's report. You can read Loyd's report here

• 12/2: Nearby towns hear concerns on terminal plan

• 11/25: Press Herald Fairwinds makes case for Harpswell to host gas terminal
  Article covers Fairwinds Presentation 11/24

• 11/23: Press Herald Gas terminal debate opens geographical fault line

• 11/19: Press Herald Collins, Snowe would join move to kill energy bill

• 11/15: Story
  Trinidad Central Bank, Petronas, Fair Play for Harpswell Among Presenting Firms at 'East Coast LNG' Conference

• 10/19: Press Herald Gas terminal plan sends shock waves through Harpswell

• 10/9: Press Herald Harpswell pressed to decide on gas depot

• 10/8: Press Herald Residents quiz selectmen on terminal plan

• Boston.com - News - Local - LNG truck mishap spawns a rush-hour headache
  Boston Globe
• Terrorism Ready to blow Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists  
  Alt site: Terrorism Ready to blow Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

• Natural gas terminal will be safe, firms say
  About Harpswell: Press Herald 9/25

• MENAFN.COM - Middle East North Africa - Financial Network
  Predicts high prices for LNG