Mayor seeks to block tankers Wants Yemen gas delivery offshore

The Boston Glob ^ | January 1, 2010 | Andrea Estes

[LurkedLongEnough]

Mayor Thomas M. Menino said yesterday he will ask Boston’s lawyers to see whether the city can block Yemeni tankers from delivering liquefied natural gas into Boston Harbor, calling such deliveries “wrong.’’

“We’re in extraordinary times that call for extraordinary measures to ensure the safety of our city,’’ the mayor said in an interview. “They cannot be coming into a harbor like Boston, where there is less than 50 feet between the tankers and residential areas.’
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The Globe reported yesterday that shipments of liquefied natural gas from Yemen are scheduled to arrive for the first time in Boston as early as February. Coast Guard officials are reviewing the plan and said yesterday they have not yet decided whether the shipments will be allowed to enter the harbor and dock at the LNG terminal in Everett.

[Navy Patriot]

Darn, there must still be some other way to offend them.

Wink at their goat.

[TigersEye]

I thought Hugo Chavez was providing energy welfare to Mass now?

[rae4palin]

Sure, the terrorists are bad but our safety is under greater threat from the voters in MA.

[Leisler]

Bull. You could fire RPG’s into those tanks all day long and nothing will happen.

The Department of Energy has never, under any circumstances been able to blow up a tank.

Getting the frozen slush to liquefy, then gas and then combust in anything but a controlled engine is near nigh impossible.

[henbane]

The Amount of Gas Released From Just One LNG Tanker Would Be 20 Times Greater Than The Amount of LNG That Incinerated One Square Mile of Cleveland in 1944

[pietraynor]

Hey Mayor Menino is this the same LNG facility that you refuse to let the Boston Fire Department implement a contingency plan for? Is this the same LNG facility the Boston Fire Department needs to protect with a Fire Boat that is almost 40 years old and is bearly sea worthy? The same Fire Boat that there has been a request for replacement in every fiscal year budget request the last 16 years that you have been mayor? How come Boston is the only city in the top 120 major metropolitan areas that comprise the Urban Area Security Initiative NOT to have a FULL TIME Fire Department HazMat team, that would be needed immediately if something happened at this LNG facility? Well you could care Less about the people in Charlestown because you dont do well in elections there. Plus to hell with the people of Everett and Somerville because they cant vote for you. Oh, I guess with the people who cause Man Made Disasters now coming out of Yemen, it is politically correct to ask for something from your buddies Coupe Deval and the lizard king huh?

[1ofmanyfree]

"The Amount of Gas Released From Just One LNG Tanker Would Be 20 Times Greater Than The Amount of LNG That Incinerated One Square Mile of Cleveland in 1944"

Just sayin', anything is possible with enough $$$, time, and planning. What better a cover for a big azz bomb; inside liquid Natural Gas tanks, no way to inspect.

[thackney]

LNG is bad stuff

No, it is not.

would be INCREDIBLY attractive to terrorists

Only because of their ignorance (and others) that LNG will not explode.

[thackney]

You don’t understand that LNG is NOTHING like the bomb material carried by that ship.

LNG is not capable of exploding.

[thackney]

Existing LNG Terminals:

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There are 26 other approved terminals in the US.
http://www.ferc.gov/industries/lng/indus-act/terminals/lng-approved.pdf

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7 other sites have been proposed.

http://www.ferc.gov/industries/lng/indus-act/terminals/lng-proposed.pdf

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12 other sites have been discussed as potential sites for additional LNG facilities.

http://www.ferc.gov/industries/lng/indus-act/terminals/lng-potential.pdf

[TexasCajun]

I'd like to see all imports of natural gas halted!

Drill Baby Drill !!

[Cindy]

WHDH.com: Boston - "GOV. PATRICK ON YEMEN LNG TANKERS IN BOSTON HARBOR" (SNIPPET: "The Coast Guard's decision to allow LNG tankers from Yemen into Boston Harbor comes despite concerns about the country supporting terrorists. "I've spoken with the senior-most people at homeland security, and they have taken it all the way up the chain to the White House national security advisors. I think that everything that can be done has been done. They have taken a whole host of new and more intrusive security measures, and that is what all of us are looking for," said Gov. Patrick. Yet Boston Mayor Thomas Menino blasted the Coast Guard’s decision.") (February 3, 2010, 2:50 pm)

[Cindy]

OFF THREAD TOPIC, but fyi:

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - For The Record - blog: "AWLAKI: U.S. Civilians Are Legitimate Targets Because Americans Elect 'Criminal' Leaders" by IPT News (February 3, 2010, 7:51 pm)

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CNS NEWS.com: "AMERICAN EX-CONS WHO CONVERTED TO ISLAM AND MOVED TO YEMEN PUT U.S. ON 'HEIGHTENED ALERT,' SAYS SENATE COMMITTEE REPORT" by Fred Lucas (SNIPPET: "U.S. officials say a "significant threat" could come from American citizens, some of them ex-convicts, who traveled to Yemen. The threat has put federal law enforcement on "heightened alert." "Most worrisome is a group of as many as three dozen former criminals who converted to Islam in prison, were released at the end of their sentences, and moved to Yemen, ostensibly to study Arabic," said a Jan. 21, 2010 report by the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.") (February 3, 2010)

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NY DAILY NEWS.com: "AL QAEDA POISED TO TRY MAJOR ATTACK IN UNITED STATES WITHIN 3-6 MONTHS, INTELLIGENCE CHIEF WARNS" by John Marzulli and James Gordon Meek (February 3, 2010, 4:00 am)

DNI.gov - Testimony - STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD: "ANNUAL THREAT ASSESSMENT OF THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY FOR THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence" (February 3, 2010) (pdf)

DNI.gov - Testimony: "ANNUAL THREAT ASSESSMENT OF THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - Dennic C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence (February 2, 2010) (pdf)