NY rejects Long Island Sound LNG terminal

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York’s governor on Thursday rejected a proposal by energy companies Shell and TransCanada to build a liquefied natural gas platform in Long Island Sound, saying it was “fundamentally wrong” to privatize open water.

Rejection of the Broadwater plant was the latest setback for the energy industry’s efforts to build a terminal off North America’s eastern shores to import supplies of natural gas from the Caribbean, Middle East and West Africa.


New York’s new governor, David Paterson, said he wanted to protect Long Island Sound, the body of water between Connecticut and New York’s Long Island.

“Broadwater does not pass that test,” he said.

Reuters