AES Battery Rock Hearing Scheduled Today
Massachusetts state lawmakers are scheduled to convene today to hear testimony regarding AES’ Battery Rock LNG plan. Among those expected to testify is counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke, whose report says the company’s proposed LNG facility on Outer Brewster Island would pose minimal safety and security threats. “We judge that that there is a negligible security risk attendant to the Battery Rock proposal and that security concerns should not be a bar to the creation of an LNG offloading facility on Outer Brewster Island,” the report says. Today’s Boston Globe reports that the environmental advocacy group MassPIRG has released letters from 16 Massachusetts senators and 58 representatives expressing opposition to the legislation necessary for development of the island. Passing the legislation requires a two-thirds majority in both houses. [Free registration necessary]