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Natural Gasbags (WSJ Editorial)
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Posted on 01/09/2006 11:34:20 PM PST by indianrightwinger

Natural Gasbags January 10, 2006; Page A14

Warmer weather in the Northeast this week comes as a particular relief to those still recovering from last month's heating bills.

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One instructive case is that of Hess LNG, which is trying to build a terminal to import liquified natural gas in Fall River, Massachusetts. But last year, two Massachusetts Congressmen shoehorned a provision into the transportation bill to keep open a bridge that lies immediately downriver from Hess LNG's proposed terminal. (Yes, the same transportation bill that gave us Alaska Senator Ted Stevens's infamous Bridge to Nowhere.)

Democrats James McGovern and Barney Frank have made it a mission to stop the LNG terminal's construction. So when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission finally granted a permit for its construction last year, the duo threw an obstacle in the way, in the form of a decrepit, obsolete bridge slated for demolition.

The Brightman Street Bridge is being replaced by a larger, more modern structure just upriver. Federal funds had already been set aside for the old bridge's demolition. But when Congressmen Frank and McGovern learned that the opening in the Brightman Street drawbridge was too small to allow the passage of the LNG tankers that Hess wanted to use, they suddenly became the bridge's biggest backers.

As the transportation bill was being negotiated, they slipped in an earmark to preserve the bridge as a pedestrian and bicycle thoroughfare (it's considered too run down to handle heavy vehicular traffic anymore) and then crowed about it to the media back home. "I thought that this would be a nice place for a bike path and pedestrian walkway," Mr. McGovern was reported in the Boston Globe as saying. "In the process, if it succeeds in blocking the LNG plant from going into Fall River, that's great."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: gas; gasprices; gulf; highgasprices; lng; massachusetts; naturalgas; oilprices
Liberals hard at work. For the enviro nut cases instead of their real constituents. Shameful.
1 posted on 01/09/2006 11:34:23 PM PST by indianrightwinger
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To: indianrightwinger

Saw the headline - thaought the were talking about the Senators & the Alito hearings... :)


2 posted on 01/09/2006 11:35:36 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (Don't have an annus horribilis in 2006.)
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To: Keith in Iowa

Yes, it would be an apt headline for the Dummies on the Judiciary committee as well. :-)


3 posted on 01/09/2006 11:37:05 PM PST by indianrightwinger
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To: Keith in Iowa

Me too!


4 posted on 01/09/2006 11:50:17 PM PST by Huck (Don't Vote: It only encourages them.)
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To: Huck

Me three!


5 posted on 01/10/2006 12:45:12 AM PST by alaskamomma
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To: indianrightwinger

Let their constituents heating bills skyrocket and then tell them why. I'm not sympathetic.


6 posted on 01/10/2006 1:02:09 AM PST by DB (©)
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To: DB
Let their constituents heating bills skyrocket and then tell them why. I'm not sympathetic

The connection between heating bills and energy supplies is so far beyond the comprehension of the nitwits that elect these turds it is not even humorous.

Those skanks are in the House for life, fagboy will likely replace fatboy as Senator when cirrhosis finally takes him out.

Have no sympathy for those still here, all is lost and we seem to want to keep it that way.

7 posted on 01/10/2006 3:22:09 AM PST by mmercier (same as it ever was)
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To: indianrightwinger
The last paragraph in the article:

***Hess LNG says it is working on a way around the bridge, so to speak, one that doesn't involve bringing LNG upriver in "canoes," as Mr. McGovern helpfully suggested. As for Messrs. McGovern and Frank, dear readers, you might send them a thank-you note and a copy of your gas bills this month, with due appreciation for their efforts to keep your heating bills high.***
(emphisis mine)

8 posted on 01/10/2006 5:50:40 AM PST by yoe
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