TheDay.com - New Evidence To Consider: "A new scientific study adds to environmental concerns over the proposed Broadwater liquefied natural gas project.
Peter Auster, science director of the National Undersea Research Center at the Avery Point branch of the University of Connecticut and colleagues from the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection spent five days earlier this summer studying the seafloor of the Stratford Shoal, an expanse bisecting Long Island Sound that would be the site for the offshore LNG facility and a 22-mile pipeline.
Their research added significantly to the scientific knowledge of marine life and conditions on the bottom of the Sound, and in that location. They found forests of finger sponges and dense communities of northern star coral, along with beds of blue mussels and lobster burrows, none of which is documented in the FERC draft environmental impact statement. That report concludes that the project would not have a significant impact on the marine environment of the Sound."
