Thursday, April 12, 2007

LIA offers Broadwater iffy support - Newsday.com

LIA offers Broadwater iffy support - Newsday.com: "Long Island's largest business group announced yesterday its conditional support for the bitterly controversial floating liquid natural gas terminal proposed for midway between the Suffolk County and Connecticut coastlines.

The Long Island Association, in a statement, listed these conditions for its support of the Broadwater Energy project in Long Island Sound: 'All environmental, safety and security issues must be resolved to federal and state satisfaction; Long Island must get lower priced gas; environmental, commercial fishing, community benefit, safety and security funds must be set up; payments in lieu of taxes to Riverhead.' "