Report raises red flags - Newsday.com: "A Suffolk legislator yesterday described as 'something out of a science-fiction movie' several possible scenarios from a terrorist attack on a liquefied-natural-gas platform proposed for Long Island Sound.
Staff of the congressional Government Accountability Office presented findings from a report on potential threats to LNG facilities at a special hearing of the Suffolk County Legislature yesterday in Riverhead. One legislator concluded after the meeting that nightmare scenarios are a possibility for the proposed Broadwater Energy LNG facility and that additional study is required.
'They gave us a litany of concerns,' Legis. Wayne Horsley (D-Lindenhurst) said. Among them, he said, was the possibility that ignition of gas could create a fireball that would 'burn anything in its path' for 1 1/4 miles...."
