With “Backs Against Wall” Rhode Island Approves LNG Facility

Do Rhode Island regulators read MDN? Maybe! On Monday we brought you a post about the coming natural gas outages like that experienced last January in the People's Republic of Rhode Island, due to eco-socialist pressure to ban new natural gas infrastructure (see Rhode Island Eco-Socialists Threaten State with NatGas Outages). Yesterday the state’s Energy Facility Siting Board waived a licensing requirement for a "temporary" LNG storage facility in Portsmouth to prevent another January episode from happening again. Board members complained they had no choice, that "we have our backs against the wall" and "people’s lives could be in danger" if they don't approve the LNG facility.

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