If Massachusetts is so dead set against siting the proposed Weaver’s Cove LNG terminal in its state, Rep. Charles W. Boustany Jr. (R-LA) suggested that the company consider relocating the controversial project to Louisiana.

“I urge you to consider locating a facility in the region that welcomes and understands this critical energy supply,” the Louisiana lawmaker said in a letter Wednesday to Gordon Shearer, CEO of Weaver’s Cove Energy.

“Three [LNG] plants are either operational or under construction in Cameron Parish, with at least another five proposed in the area. Terminals have access to 20 natural gas pipelines as well as the nearby Henry Hub. Interconnections to other pipelines allow access to the complete U.S. pipeline grid, including New England and the Midwest,” he noted.

Boustany’s letter comes on the heels of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decision rejecting requests by New England parties to reopen the record of the Weaver’s Cove LNG terminal proposed for Fall River, MA (see Daily GPI, April 19). The Commission ruled that the parties had failed to demonstrate that Weaver’s Cove revised plan to use smaller LNG tankers to navigate the Taunton River amounted to “extraordinary circumstances.”

On Wednesday, four members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation sent a letter to the U.S. Coast Guard, urging the agency to block the construction of the LNG terminal in Fall River (see Daily GPI, April 20). FERC’s latest decision leaves the Coast Guard review as the last major federal regulatory hurdle facing the Weaver’s Cove terminal.

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