A tour of proposed Broadwater gas terminal site shows it's remote from shore, but not from concerns - Newsday.com: "Broadwater Energy took some local media on a three-hour tour yesterday, but it wasn't to Gilligan's Island: The trip, suggested by one of its public relations consultants, was to the site of Broadwater's proposed liquefied natural gas terminal and was intended, the company said, to demonstrate its remoteness from land.
'If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a visit will be priceless,' John Hritcko, Broadwater's senior vice president and regional director, told the small group of Long Island TV and print reporters and photographers.
Indeed, from the proposed location about nine miles from Wading River and about 11 from Connecticut, both shorelines are just gray silhouettes, even on a clear day. On a weekday morning, there were few other boats in sight.
But, if the site is remote, it is not unvisited; surrounding the 110-foot-long utility boat Sorenson Miller when it stopped at the proposed location were a number of white marker buoys for lobster 'pots,' or traps. John German, president of the Long Island Sound Lobstermen's Association, said later that they belong to him and seven other men from Mount Sinai who regularly fish the area."
