Page 27 - Fore River News Today

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 2nd indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 20 billion cubic feet to 1,784 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 235 billion cubic feet, or 11.6% below the 2,019 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 2nd of last year, and 36 billion cubic feet, or 1.3% below the five-year average of 1,808 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been...

WEYMOUTH – The town council has approved taking down an old trash incinerator plant using nearly $1 million of the money from the energy company that owns the natural gas compressor station on the banks of the Fore River. Mayor Robert Hedlund requested $940,000 to remove the 19,700-square-foot incinerator on Wharf Street. The town council approved the request this week. Hedlund said the request for proposals for the work will go out in the next two weeks, with a contractor in place by J...

Wicked Local WEYMOUTH-– U.S. Representative Stephen F. Lynch is requesting an "immediate shutdown" of the Fore River Basins compressor station following an unplanned gas release on April 6. Lynch stated the unplanned gas release was the third "blowout" at the facility since Enbridge Inc. began utilizing it in September 2020. “Every accident at the Weymouth Compressor Station endangers the lives and health of local residents and surrounding communities, and these so-called blowouts have beco...

Enbridge spokesman Max Bergeron said in an email that the company notified all officials as required. He did not specify the reason for the gas release. "The safety of the facility and surrounding area were not impacted by this occurrence, and we are continuing to proceed with safety as our highest priority," he said in the email. The compressor station is part of Enbridge’s Atlantic Bridge project, which expands the company’s natural gas pipelines from New Jersey into Canada. Since the sta...

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Family and senior apartments planned for Portland’s West End Community Housing of Maine wants to build 41 family apartments and 52 senior apartments behind the original Mercy Hospital on State Street. Share Community Housing of Maine is proposing to build 93 new units of senior and family housing on the Mercy Hospital campus in Portland’s West End. The Portland nonprofit, which supports housing for older and lower-income Mainers, is asking the city’s approval for a new building, called T...

Wicked Local WEYMOUTH- Town Solicitor Joseph Callanan said legal precedents don’t allow Town Council to file a legal brief with federal regulators about safety and health concerns posed by a natural gas compressor station in the Fore River Basin. "Collectively, the Town Council does not have the authority to sue," he said during a Council meeting, March 8.  “If you do it as individuals, I have no problem with that.” Councilor-at-large Rebecca Haugh said her colleagues could draft a lette...

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Lawmakers push regulators to reexamine compressor approval WEYMOUTH – Members of Weymouths congressional delegation want federal regulators to reconsider their decision to allow the compressor station on the banks of the Fore River to go into service.  U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch and U.S. Sens. Edward Markey and Elizabeth Warren recently sent a letter to Richard Glick, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, asking that the commission rescind the in-service authorization issue...

Finding the R-8 A major upgrade to side-scan sonar helps the crew of Tenacious locate a sunken World War I submarine in Northeast waters Author: Feb 5, 2021 The 186-foot-long R-8 is believed to be the last missing American sub in diveable North Atlantic waters Navsource Joseph St. Amand, sitting across from the helm aboard the 45-foot Tenacious, was the first to see the seafloor change. The images flashed on his sonar monitor for a total of 30, 40, maybe 50 seconds. He couldn’t be sure what...